It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

I have no trouble sleeping.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Action expresses priorities.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Never get out of bed before noon.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.