Quotes About Productivity

With enough coffee anything is possible

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

We've all got limits on our energy, time, and attention. Why not place our focus on the situations and issues where we can move the needle?

Separate organizations with related software needs often find themselves duplicating effort, either by redundantly writing similar code in-house, or by purchasing similar products from proprietary vendors. When they realize what's going on, the organizations may pool their resources and create (or join) an open source project tailored to their needs. The advantages are obvious: the costs of development are divided, but the benefits accrue to all.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays.

Ma dove troverò mai il tempo per non leggere tante cose?

Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.

Wo nehm ich nur all die Zeit her, so viel nicht zu lesen?

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

growth is on the way, argue technology optimists such as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: thanks to the exponential growth in digital processing power, we are entering the 'second machine age' in which the fast-rising productivity of robots will drive a new wave of GDP growth.

their heads popping up prairie-dog style from their cubes.

For medieval women as well as men literary productivity goes hand in hand with the opportunity for education, at least a modicum of scholarly idleness, access to materials needed for work, some financial independence, patronage in social, religious, or financial form (...) With women writers, an added prerequisite often entails the freedom from repeated pregnancies and childbearing. [Introduction]

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

They may desire the option of increasing the nation's income by increasing its productivity, but their political agenda prevents that from happening.101 The second option is to

Code writers, like engineers generally, tend to get sidetracked by interesting but irrelevant conundrums.

The veterans would spend so much time tutoring the novices that they would lose track of their work. And by the time the new hires learned enough really to help, the group would have missed the deadline anyway. "For the same reason," Perazzoli said, "your wife's not going to have a baby in three months if you give her two more people." Even

As software pundit Fred Brooks once observed, "How does a project get to be a year late?... One day at a time." In

With software, you know what you have to do," he said, "but it's always a big surprise how long it will take." Miller

Do everything quickly and well.