“Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.”

“It is more important to move on to positive actions without stopping to wallow in anger about injustices -- including the unjust suppression of inventors. Exposing the skeletons in the closet serves to enlighten, but getting off-message with retribution will be counter-productive.”

“There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill.”

“The more you watch users carefully and listen to them articulate their intentions, motivations, and thought processes, the more you realize that their individual reactions to Web pages are based on so many variables that attempts to describe users in terms of one-dimensional likes and dislikes are futile and counter-productive. Good design, on the other hand, takes this complexity into account.”

“Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.”

“I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.”