“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”— Red Adair
“Real magic can never be made by offering up someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”— Peter S. Beagle
“It is a reproach to our intelligence that we as a people should have to support about half a million insane, feeble-minded, epileptic, blind and deaf, 80,000 prisoners and 100,000 paupers at a cost of over 100 million dollars per year.”— Charles Davenport
“The problem with code-and-fix development is that the fixing part is the most expensive part.”— Steve McConnell
“To the average man the first question is, What will it cost? To the educator and the librarian the question is, What is it worth?”— Melvil Dewey
“Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital.”— Joseph Epstein