Quotes About Time

minimize time spent reading newspapers

since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside.

the "planning fallacy," in which they try to explain the fact that projects take longer, rarely less time, using psychological factors.

time is equivalent to disorder, and resistance to the ravages of time, that is, what we gloriously call survival, is the ability to handle disorder.

That second is not in itself significant enough for someone to draw conclusions.

the only effective judge of things is time

Lindy" is what ages in reverse, i.e., its life expectancy lengthens with time

it took seven years to make John a hero and just seven days to make him a failure.

b) The more volatile the something—the more uncertainty—the more the function divorces itself from the something. Let us consider the average number of cars again. The function (travel time) depends more on the volatility around the average. Things degrade if there is unevenness of distribution. For the same average you prefer to have 100,000 cars for both time periods; 80,000 then 120,000, would be even worse than 90,000 and 110,000.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom

And as a risk taker, only time counts—for I could fool my accountant with steady earnings with a lot of hidden risk, but time will eventually reveal them.

the time difference between formal discovery and first implementation

Lembre-se da assimetria fundamental: o antifrágil beneficia-se com a volatilidade e a desordem; o frágil é prejudicado. Bem, tempo e desordem são a mesma coisa.

Consider that thinking is time-consuming and generally a great waste of energy

I do not consider that resisting new technology is necessarily irrational: waiting for time to operate its testing might be a valid approach if one holds that we have an incomplete picture of things.

The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse. Hence, laws come and go; ethics stay.

He provides the example of a philosopher who puzzles about the reality of time, but who nonetheless applies for a research grant to work on the philosophical problem of time during next year's sabbatical—without doubting the reality of next year's arrival.

I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time

looks half my age though he is only slightly younger than I

So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible.

The freer Nero's time, the more compelled he felt to compensate for lost time in filling gaps in his natural interests

In other words, history teaches us that things that never happened before do happen. It can teach us a lot outside of the narrowly defined time series; the broader the look, the better the lesson. In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical

Next let me show how the future is mostly in the past.

My only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.