It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.