“You can be in the middle of a creative meeting at your job or something, and enough material can rush through your head just in the little silences when people are looking over their notes and waiting for the next presentation that it would take exponentially longer than the whole meeting just to try to put a few seconds’ silence’s flood of thoughts into words.”

David Foster Wallace

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“There are times when it is absolutely essential to confer, but I incline to believe that when it is not necessary to confer, it is necessary not to confer. So much easier to read the views of others nicely trimmed for economy’s sake, than to sit with a dozen people who in some cases aren’t given the time necessary to develop their thought, in other cases don’t have sufficient thought to justify the time they are given to express it.”

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“There are meetings which, when cancelled at the last minute, give one an ecstatic feeling of having cheated death for a little longer.”

Alain de Botton

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