Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."