You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole. - David Heinemeier Hansson

Sometimes, distractions can actually serve a purpose. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, they warn us — when we feel ourselves regularly succumbing to them — that our work is not well defined, or our tasks are menial, or the whole project we’re engaged in is fundamentally pointless.

When you yet to do 100% of what somebody wants, you need a perfect match, and it's pretty rare that you have a perfect match between what you thought people needed and what they actually need. If you try instead to do 80 percent of what they need, there's a pretty good chance you'll hit a sweet spot.

In thirty years’ time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed. — RICHARD BRANSON, FOUNDER OF VIRGIN GROUP*