Matt Bachmann

“I have to wonder if it isn’t more accurate to say that life is a series of trap doors, and you fall through them, one by one, tumbling down and down and down, one hole to the next.”
― Ben H. Winters, World of Trouble

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“It is more important that milestones be sharp-edged and unambiguous than that they be easily verifiable by the boss. Rarely will a man lie about milestone progress, if the milestone is so sharp that he can't deceive himself. But if the milestone is fuzzy, the boss often understands a different report from that which the man gives. To supplement Sophocles, no one enjoys bearing bad news, either, so it gets softened without any real intent to deceive.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

“There are no interruptions, really—there are simply mismanaged occurrences.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity