Book: Engineers

... take we are here on earth, only his last meal. This only is the real our anyone the inalienable property. Everything else - the whole world, things, love, everything is temporary, everything passes. Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse... do you Remember how firmly it and eat a lot, slowly, and chew well.

Kartashev, absolutely amazed, went to Sikorsky.
- You gave him a bribe?
- As you can see.
- Well, if he is hit?
- It?!
Sikorsky laughed.
Look, even ashamed to be so naive. After all, it's the police!

Tomorrow at nine o'clock, be ready: I'll pick you up.
- So early?
Early! A decent engineer in nine hours the second time for bed.

... everything had to start again from somewhere first, I had again to climb some inaccessible without a ladder the tower of life.

- The bosses we have, continued Sikorski, who took a stick in our business, and the corporal. It means that who wants to work who can work, he soon becomes the owner of the business, in addition to any hierarchy of official.

The basic rule in this business: for the ignorance of not hitting, but for the hiding your ignorance - beat, kill and driven out with the case. Ignorant to teach is not difficult, but a scoundrel, who says - I know, but he did not know, destroying irrevocably the case.