I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
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Letter to Abraham Lincoln on his Gettysburg Address (20 November 1863).Edward Everett
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The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.
Vernor Vinge
Mother brings a child late to contact by half-an-hour; father then requires an extra half-hour the next week. This is getting silly. If, in fact, the father does not see the child at all, of course he should see the child on another occasion, but there are fathers who actually add up the minutes and produce it and say "Now I should have so much more contact because I lost five minutes last week and ten minutes the week before".
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
Wiki has a feel of brainstorming, though it's not as interactive. You can do 10 minutes of brainstorming, and 30 minutes of analysis of the product of that brainstorming, and have something in 45 minutes. The pace on wiki is slower. You could write a page about an idea, or maybe a page about a bunch of ideas. Then you could come back in a week and see what's developed on that page.
Ward Cunningham
Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.
Jonathan Swift
We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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