Time quotes

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” Terry Pratchett

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.” Terry Pratchett

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.” Terry Pratchett

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” Terry Pratchett

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.” Terry Pratchett

“Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.” Terry Pratchett

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” Douglas Adams

“Time is bunk.” Douglas Adams

“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?” Lois McMaster Bujold

“How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?” Lois McMaster Bujold

“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.” Charlie Chaplin

“To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.” Charlie Chaplin

“The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.” Heraclitus

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” Steve Jobs

“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.” Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs

“I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when your changing. Your growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.” Steve Jobs

“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.” Steve Jobs

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.” Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.” Martin Luther King

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” Martin Luther King

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King

“Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.” Martin Luther King

“Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.” Quintilian

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” Rodin

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.” John Updike

“ One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.” Kurt Vonnegut

“I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.” Roger Zelazny