Quotes About Time

When is the 'look out the windshield phase' of driving? Pretty much all driving is looking out the windshield! It's not a phase. Saying 'testing takes too long' is a bit like saying 'safe driving takes too long.

By making the time tradeoff explicit and by indicating a willingness to contribute time now, I make it clear that it is a problem of limited time, not a problem of limited respect for the other person.

Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong. Testing does not improve a product; the improving is done by people fixing the bugs that testing has uncovered. Often when managers say, "Testing takes too long," what they should be saying is, "Fixing the bugs in the product takes too long"—a different cost category.

Victor Hugo once said that nothing in this world was so powerful as an idea whose time has come. In our time, the idea is technology, especially information processing technology. The programmer partakes of this technology power

Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its immediate benefits. I don't think many readers finishing a book ask themselves how many hours of anguish and domestic calamities those two hundred pages have cost the author or how much he received for his work …

Dipping into the pitcher of the past, his father often said, can only sour the cup of the present.

es igual de fácil y toma el mismo tiempo decir, "Lo siento, mi vida. En este momento no tengo tiempo", en lugar de "¡¿Qué no puedes ver que estoy ocupado?! ¡Deja de molestar!". Con los niños, un sencillo acto de cortesía puede hacer mucho.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

Light beams became alive, and became not only alive, but self-aware, and acquired the ability to wonder. The wonder is not whether this genesis took six days or fourteen billion years or even eternity.

Psalms 90:4: "A thousand years in your sight are like a day that passes.

Peter 3:8: "Unto the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.

The Age of Our Universe: Six Days and Fifteen Billion Years

Biblical commentators [say that] the first six days of Genesis were six 24-hour days. This means that whoever was in charge recorded the passage of 24 hours per day. But who was there to measure the passage of time? Until Adam appeared on day six, God was watching the clock. And that is the key.

Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.

I recognized the tokens of the time, because I had lived through just such another uneasy season, when every day was tainted by the foul breath of a fear that could not be faced forthrightly, yet could not be ignored.

So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.

At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I am glad of it. For I now no longer have the time to fall into such sins as I committed as a girl, when hours that were my own to spend spread before me like a gift.

Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.

We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.

Injustice never rules forever.

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.