Remember in The Matrix when the little kid said to Neo, “There is no spoon”?
As CEO of a project timesheet company, I think about time a great deal. Part of my job involves trying to convince people that tracking their time is worth the effort. One response I got recently from a smart-aleck at a customer of ours (a large pharmaceutical company) was, “There is no such thing as time, so why track it?” He then directed me to an article in Discover magazine.
The following is my favorite quote from the article:
“I recently went to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder,” says Lloyd. (NIST is the government lab that houses the atomic clock that standardizes time for the nation.) “I said something like, ‘Your clocks measure time very accurately.’ They told me, ‘Our clocks do not measure time.’ I thought, Wow, that’s very humble of these guys. But they said, ‘No, time is defined to be what our clocks measure.’ Which is true. They define the time standards for the globe: Time is defined by the number of clicks of their clocks.”
- Curt Finch, Journyx CEO
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