Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

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

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Friends are thieves of time.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Computers make me totally blank out.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Lost time is never found again.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Never mistake motion for action.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

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.

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

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I don’t do meetings.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

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 realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

Well begun is half done.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.