Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating… - David Heinemeier Hansson

My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that’s amazing,” he explains. “It’s certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about.

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.

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*