Paul Graham:

The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work.

With time, as with money, avoiding pleasure is no longer enough to protect you.

Caterina Fake:

Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on.

Noteworthy:

They say delayed gratification isn't all it's cracked up to be.

"We'll see", I tell them. "We'll see."

Carolyn Johnson:

As cures for boredom have proliferated, people do not seem to feel less bored; they simply flee it with more energy.

Judith Warner:

We're all losers now. There's no pleasure to it.