Aphex Twin Quotes

You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.

I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

My desktop is really chaotic, and I'm always trying to work out where I am going to put all these ideas.

People have different styles: Some are filers and some are pilers. The people who pile things often know exactly where things are, and they're often just as organized as the people who file things.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.

I'm a mess. My house is full of records, and my computer... I can't find the things that I want. But it usually seems to work out.

I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

Develop a good filing system.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.

I don't like when I look too cluttered.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.

When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.