One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out. -Norman Douglas An Almanac

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o’clock has the whole afternoon ruined for himself already. -Lin Yutang The Importance of Living People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. -French proverb Punctuality if the theif of time. -Oscar Wilde You’re either a person who’s always…

Just as we challenged the “bigger is better” theory in the late ‘sixties and concluded that small is O.K., it’s time to realize that faster isn’t better. Slower may be more humane. -Jeremy Rifkin Time Wars We are at a point in history where, to most Americans, the value of time is reaching parity with…

[Can] a stranger from one generation say much that is helpful to members of another generation standing on a different doorstep in time? Just as a life is a particular life, so a generation lives in its own unque time. -Bill Moyers [commencement address] If you were graduating from high or college, what kinds of…

In a way, modernity is defined by the extent to which life has been brought under human control. -Russell Banks The Sweet Hereafter [paraphrase]

Schools and prisons are the only places where time is more important than the job to be done. -John Bradshaw [public television series]

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make easier to do don’t need to be done. -Andrew A. Rooney Word for Word People are innately intelligent… Technology can help, but it isn’t a substitute. Shakespeare saw deeply into the human character long before light bulbs. –Christian…