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Quotes About Time

If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? 100 minutes OR 5 minutes
~ Daniel Kahneman
The mistake that people make in the focusing illusion involves attention to selected moments and neglect of what happens at other times.
~ Daniel Kahneman
shed new light on the planning fallacy
~ Daniel Kahneman
Even in the absence of time pressure, maintaining a coherent train of thought requires discipline.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The neglect of duration combined with the peak-end rule causes a bias that favors a short period of intense joy over a long period of moderate happiness.
~ Daniel Kahneman
In short, doctors are significantly more likely to order cancer screenings early in the morning than late in the afternoon.
~ Daniel Kahneman
It follows that patients with appointment times later in the day were less likely to receive guideline-recommended cancer screening.
~ Daniel Kahneman
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Natürlich, es ist das Ende, und wir sterben. Aber das heißt nicht, dass wir nicht noch lange da sein, andere Menschen finden, spazierengehen, nachts träumen und alles erledigen können, was eine Marionette so tut.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
È bizzarro e ingiusto, disse Gauss, il fatto che si nasce in una determinata epoca e, volenti o nolenti, vi si resta imprigionati: un esempio calzante della penosa accidentalità dell'esistenza. Così uno ha un vantaggio spropositato rispetto al passato e diventa lo zimbello del futuro.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Warum er traurig war? [...] Weil die Welt sich so enttäuschend ausnahm, sobald man erkannte, wie dünn ihr Gewebe war, wie grob gestrickt die Illusion, wie laienhaft vernäht ihre Rückseite. Weil nur Geheimnis und Vergessen es erträglich machten. Weil man es ohne den Schlaf, der einen täglich aus der Wirklichkeit riß, nicht aushielt. Nicht Wegsehenkönnen war Traurigkeit. Wachsein war Traurigkeit. Erkennen [...] war Verzweiflung. [...] Weil die Zeit immer verging.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Seltsam sei es und ungerecht, sagte Gauß, so recht ein Beispiel für die erbärmliche Zufälligkeit der Existenz, dass man in einer bestimmten Zeit geboren und ihr verhaftet sei, ob man wolle oder nicht. Es verschaffe einem einen unziemlichen Vorteil vor der Vergangenheit und mache einen zum Clown der Zukunft.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Signore e signori, che cos'è la morte? In realtà non solo l'estinzione dell'individuo o gli attimi del trapasso, ma già il lungo declino che la precede, quel rilassamento che si dilata negli anni; il periodo in cui un uomo c'è ancora, ma allo stesso tempo non c'è più e in cui, anche se la sua statura è ormai andata a farsi benedire, può ancora dare a intendere di esistere. Signore e signori, è questo il modo sopraffino con cui la natura ha regolato la nostra morte!
~ Daniel Kehlmann
What is death? Fundamentally it is not extinction and those seconds when life ends, but the slow decline that precedes it, that creeping debility that extends over years: the time in which a person is still there and yet not there, in which he can still imagine that although his prime is long since past, it lingers yet. So circumspectly has nature organized our death!
~ Daniel Kehlmann
It was both odd and injust, a real example of the pitiful arbitrariness of existence, that you were born into a particular time and held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Das, dachte er, ist es. Leben müssen, obgleich alles vorbei ist. Disponieren, organisieren: jeden Tag, jede Stunde und Minute. Als hätte es noch Sinn
~ Daniel Kehlmann
A chi gli chiedeva reminiscenze della sua gioventù, il professore rispondeva che non può esserci niente del genere e che i ricordi, a differenza delle calcografie e delle lettere, non riportano una data. Le cose si conservano nella memoria e solo con la riflessione una persona riesce a sistemarle in un ordine temporale.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Pensò al Giudizio universale. Non credeva che avrebbero davvero messo in piedi un simile evento. Gli imputati avevano argomenti per difendersi, alcuni dibattimenti non sarebbero stati graditi a Dio. Insetti, sporcizia, dolore. L'inadeguatezza di tutto. Perfino con lo spazio e il tempo non aveva fatto un lavoro per bene. Se lo si fosse citato in giudizio, pensava proprio che avrebbe avuto un paio di cosette da dirgli.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
~ Daniel Keyes
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.
~ Daniel Keyes
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
~ Daniel Keys Moran
The air currents should take you to the wall in, I don't know, ten minutes or so, but if you're really in a hurry, take off your clothes and throw them away from you; for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
~ Daniel Keys Moran
As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
~ Daniel Klein
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
~ Daniel Klein