Subject: Time (Page 6)

The ratio of time involved in work to time available for work is usually about 0.6.

Never make predictions… especially about the future.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

(1930 – ) economist, social commentator & author

As soon as you dispose of a book, even one that has gathered dust for years, a pressing need to refer to it will arise.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Styrofoam is biodegradable; you people are just impatient.

American comedian & writer

When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773) British statesman

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

(1904 – 1974) American author & radio producer

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Four years ago… no, it was yesterday.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist

Depression: A period during which we have to get along without the things our grandparents never dreamed of.

The speed of time is one second per second.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 a.m… it could be the right number.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

There was three minutes to go about two minutes ago.

English football player & manager

There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

(1923 – ) German-born diplomat & scholar

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right.

(1905 – 1988) Austrian-born American conductor