"It's easy to be the band of misfits who plays by their own rules and gets things done. It's much more difficult to do exceptional work and do it the right way the whole time."

Sort of a long form "Any job worth doing is with doing right" but focuses more on the team doing the work.

And, yes, at the time the workplace culture was firmly in the "Play hard, work to standard, cut the corners just enough that we don't get in trouble" realm. Lots of hangovers during that job...