Overheard in the design studio. The lead architect looked at a junior designer's 3D model and said, "It’s a beautiful concept, if the client is a villain from a 1980s cartoon." To be fair, it did look a bit like a lair.

We were in the middle of a massive strategy deck review with a notorious micro-manager. Our senior consultant got completely cornered on a flawed metric, paused for a dramatic three seconds, and said, "That's not a math error, it's a contrarian data perspective designed to disrupt your assumptions." The client actually nodded and shut up. What is the most blatant lie you've ever seen a colleague successfully pull off in a meeting?

“It’s as if I’ve lived through this before and didn’t really enjoy it.”

I was in the server room today helping our network admin clear out some old cables. He was on the phone with a remote user. He finally said, "Sir, turning it off and on again won't fix the fact that you spilled clam chowder into the disc drive."

“My knowing how you feel is not going to make me like you any more.”