  Leafing through Euen Semple's recent-ish posts, I find a recommendation of urlLink Jonathan Delacour's blog , where in turn I find urlLink this , quoted by Mark Pilgrim in early August, which Mark found tucked into the XML source code for his Dive Into Python (presumably Mark's own words, then, although he doesn't say definitely).
The final sentence is as elegant and concise an approach to time management as any I have seen; it expresses my feeling about time management, which I recall promising to go away and think about, which I did, and to come back and let you know my conclusions, if any, which I didn't, mainly because my conclusion was pretty facetious: "decide what doesn't need to be done, and go right ahead without delay, and not do it".
This is a lot better: As I write this, the year is 2000, and the Internet is a battleground of intellectual property disputes. Some people would like you to believe that, without proper financial incentives, music, literature, and computer software would disappear. After all, who would make music if they can't make money on it? Who would write? Who would program? I know the answer. The answer is that musicians will make music, not because they can make money, but because musicians are the people who can't not make music. Writers will write because they can't not write. I?ve been programming for 16 years, writing free software for 8. I can?t imagine not doing this. If you can imagine yourself not doing what you're doing, do something else. Do whatever it is that you can't not do. 
