Quotes About Modern work

Through some strange alchemy no one can quite explain, the number of salaried paper pushers ultimately seems to expand, and more and more employees find themselves...working forty or even fifty hours on paper but effectively working fifteen hours...since the rest of their time is spent organizing or attending motivational seminars, updating their Facebook profiles, or downloading TV box sets.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

All modern work on unification may be said to represent a program of geometrization that resembles Einstein's earlier attempts, although the manifold subject to geometrization is larger than he anticipated and the quantum framework of the program would not have been to his liking.

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.

We are...so far removed from the realities of production and work that we inhabit a dream world of artificial stimuli and televised experience.

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.

Perception of reality, today, dies crushed between modern work and modern entertainment.