I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That's how you end up checking email all day Saturday.


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In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. ...
TIMOTHY LEARY
I can't get enough of 'Pulp Fiction.' I just love it; it still holds up. And it didn'...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT
I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. ...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that ...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT
I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal governmen...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional l...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recogni...
TIMOTHY FINDLEY
Still, even when false, legends can be most informative.
TIMOTHY ZAHN
Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientist...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests,...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call cent...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law an...
TIMOTHY MURPHY
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
TIMOTHY NOAH
Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare ...
TIMOTHY MURPHY
One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Frankli...
TIMOTHY NOAH
There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossov...
TIMOTHY SIMONS
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security i...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent a...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but sev...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some s...
TIMOTHY NOAH
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical d...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
TIMOTHY LEARY
It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country aroun...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies t...
TIMOTHY MURPHY
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to govern...
TIMOTHY NOAH
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color...
TIMOTHY NOAH
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict tourin...
TIMOTHY WEST
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I...
TIMOTHY LEARY
In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased th...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain
TIMOTHY LEARY
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
TIMOTHY LEARY
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all cla...
TIMOTHY WEST
The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may...
TIMOTHY NOAH
There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants o...
TIMOTHY MURPHY
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Not only was there a John Doe No. 2,
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
John Doe No. 2 .
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so tha...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
just keep your sense of humor and be yourself.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people b...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
I didn't say that ... but they didn't prove it.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congr...
TIMOTHY NOAH
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it ...
TIMOTHY NOAH
This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would....
TIMOTHY HUTTON
The only time we got sugary cereal was when my mom went away for the weekend and she bought us Frost...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT