“It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. ”

“I work pretty hard at being different and it's nice to know people notice.”

“Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.”

“He was fucking with us pretty hard in the saferoom,” Sandra called from the front of the plane’s undercarriage.“Aw, Sandy, that wasn’t fucking,” Simon said. “That was just, I don’t know, really obnoxious foreplay or something.”

“Roxy, stop being so obnoxious!" -Joy"I'm never obnoxious; I'm just concerned." -Roxy”

“There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness. Is this not what is actually taking place all over the world? Our present education is geared to industrialization and war, its principal aim being to develop efficiency; and we are caught in this machine of ruthless competition and mutual destruction. If education leads to war, if it teaches us to destroy or be destroyed, has it not utterly failed?”