Jack Vance Quotes

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

I will never work in a cubicle.

My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.

I know it's a cliche, but I didn't want to work in an office.

Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

I never worked in an office in my life.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

I can't be left unsupervised.

Take the roof off the building where they are meeting, and limit them to bread and water.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ...

As routine business must always be dispatched, there is always a fluctuating number of supernumeraries who cannot be dispensed with, and yet are liable to dismissal at a moment's notice. All of these naturally are anxious to be "established clerks." And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pigmies, came into the world..

I really like cages.

It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.

Like, the idea that I had to spend the rest of my life behind a desk and not be able to express myself the way I wanted to express myself. To me, that is torture. I mean if people out there that do love that then more love to them, but it just wasn't for me.

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.