deadline

[gailr]

deadline
"time limit," 1920, Amer.Eng. newspaper jargon. Perhaps influenced by earlier use (1864) to mean the "do-not-cross" line in Civil War prisons:
"Seventeen feet from the inner stockade was the 'dead-line,' over which no man could pass and live." [Lossing, 1868]

This modern generation is so spoiled; they're not making deadlines like they used to...

gailr

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

"Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things." - Val Kilmer

"I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation." - Harry Shearer

[Slava]

As gailr is recently resurrected, let's resurrect one of her old suggestions. A nice coincidental tie-in, too.

I like the quotes relating to deadlines. Does anyone out there have others to add to the list?

My experience with deadlines is along the lines of college students and their reaction to them. Something like, "What, isn't the deadline the last day to ask for an extension?"