Scientist: Four golden lessons (2003)
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“Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.”
Robert Sheckley
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Mindswap
Marvin nodded. “Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, “this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.”
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 24 (p. 110)
“time wasted is not always a waste of time.”
Terri Blackstock
(1957) American writer
Source: Seaside
Free Culture (2004)
Context: Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.
In addition to these important harms, there is one more that was important to our forebears, but seems forgotten today. Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
The war that is being waged today is a war of prohibition. As with every war of prohibition, it is targeted against the behavior of a very large number of citizens. According to The New York Times, 43 million Americans downloaded music in May 2002. According to the RIAA, the behavior of those 43 million Americans is a felony. We thus have a set of rules that transform 20 percent of America into criminals.
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
From Marthe Troly-Curtin's Phrynette Married (1912). Misattributed to Bertrand Russell due to an ambiguous entry in Laurence J. Peter's Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
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Brenda Ueland
(1891–1985) Journalist and writer
Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
“Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.”
Greg Behrendt
(1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
P. V. Narasimha Rao
(1921–2004) Indian politician
While nobody was opening their mouths in other parties, mouths were wide open in the Congress