Effort Justification Quotes

The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

I won't be upset if I don't win a ring, because I gave it my all.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.