Remember reading this way back, glad to see he/she got a 10k reward from R*, great piece of debug work and a bit of inspiration to improve my own skills.
"You know, I've been thinking about it. How many people are going to be using the Macintosh? A million? No, more than that. In a few years, I bet five million people will be booting up their Macintoshes at least once a day."
"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?"
Even if you give them an extra 10 seconds every day. You would need to give them an extra 10 seconds several times throughout the day.
Time doesn't really aggregate in people like other things.