Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.
If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.
You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.
I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.
I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.
We can't do the job in a half hour ... Perhaps we're misleading people.
The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
