The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

Ayn Rand

I found this recently, and after some googling it is apparently this is an edited version of a quote made by Mother Theresa, in this instance applied to the daily grind of IT workers.

“We, the unwilling, led by the unable, have been doing the unbelievable for so long, with so little, that now we attempt to do the impossible with nothing”.