Complete Quote by Laozi

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.

— Dawson Trotman

The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.

— John Ousterhout

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

— Everett Ruess

The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start.

— John Nance Garner

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

— Fernando J. Corbato

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

— Marc Benioff

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our…

— Anonymous

“Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive.”

— Timothy Ferriss

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.

— Angelina Jolie

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is…

— Dogen

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of…

— Bill Joy

“Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of…

— Anonymous