Overbooking Quotes

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

If you're overbooked, you can't manage pressing problems or even recognize they're pressing until too late.

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

The process of overbooking is a complicated one. It's actually minimal. We, on certain flights, overbook by one or two people.

When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.

As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.

I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.

I am mightily relieved that my holiday does not come after a long queue with the National Holiday Service, complete with bedroom-sharing like the NHS.

I don't like to fill up my schedule. It's easy to do, but then that year arrives, and you find that you have no time, so you are desperately trying to cancel something. I have to think of my family.

Diners are upset that restaurants aren't honoring reservations, and a lot of restaurants help bring this on by overbooking.

My poor kids have accepted that being dropped off late to birthday parties, practices, and yes, school, is just part of the large family package.