"The telephone is a major timesuck. The time-management experts say that you shouldn't reflexively answer your phone, but this requires strength of character, a steel-hardened sense of priorities, and I am, at core, hideously feeble. The worst timesucks are the human variety, rogue timesuckers moving through the office, mouths agape, poised to suck time like whales swallowing krill."
—Joel Achenbach, "TIME OUT; TO: Busy readers; FROM: Joel Achenbach; RE: Time-evaporation epidemic; Length: 76 column inches; Estimated reading time: 17 minutes," The Washington Post