"It can appear at the most inappropriate times. Like when you are really into a good flow - your mind is working at a racing speed, juggling huge amounts of information in short term memory at once. Local variables, program states, architecture, threads, locks, possible race conditions. Your whole problem domain is in your head. You'd just hate to lose that focus now, and spend the next fifteen minutes just regaining the overview."

"The usual scientific focus on this phenomenon revolves only around the impact it has on travelling at light speed. But there are so many other activities that are far more compelling to do in such a "time-pocket". Just realize that you get to spend all the time you want without actually spending any time at all."

"I must admit, I'm not very interested in the different brands of shampoo on the market. To me, it doesn't really matter much if I end up washing my hair with Dove, Naturelle or Fructis. I leave the shopping for haircare products to my wife. That also means that I don't really know much about how the different bottles look, I just want to find one that states Shampoo on the front of it. This is where the problem arises. I can't read it!"