importance assessment Quotes

Ask yourself this question, will this matter a year from now?

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

Have I done what is really important today?

I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important.

Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.

The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.