Quotes About Productivity

Indeed, it seems the prescription for highest software productivity is almost a Zen paradox; if you want the most efficient production, you must give up trying to make programmers produce. Handle their subsistence, give them their heads, and forget about deadlines. To a conventional manager this sounds crazily indulgent and doomed — but it is exactly the recipe with which the open-source culture is now clobbering its competition.

Creative brains are a valuable, limited resource. They shouldn't be wasted on re-inventing the wheel when there are so many fascinating new problems waiting out there.

Done is better than perfect if perfect ain't done.

As we reviewed in Chapter 7, we will get away from keyboards in the office, also known as "death by a thousand clicks," and replace them with computer processing of natural language into notes.98–100

user-innovators can enjoy product development enough to want to do it themselves-after all, manufacturers

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Tanto para o masculino como para o feminino, a totalidade só é atingível quando, numa união dos opostos, o dia e a noite, o mais alto e o mais baixo, as consciências patriarcal e matriarcal, chegam ao seu próprio modo de produtividade e mutuamente se complementam, fertilizando um ao outro.

It is slothful not to compress your thoughts," he said.

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.

I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can't make myself finish something unless I am forced

Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.

Like my father, I grew distracted and unhappy when I could not usefully occupy my time.

Tim was operating with a very lean staff.

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve.

Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

He who gains time gains everything.

"Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues"

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.