Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

I would like to be head of an advertising agency

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.