Quotes About Streamlining

Too many books by too many authors can be confusing

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic I'm interested in.

Don't use a different dish for every single ingredient. If you've got three ingredients that go in at the same time, put them all in the same plate. That way you have just one plate to dump in.

I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line—it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter.

Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.

Classes and routines are first and foremost intellectual tools for reducing complexity. If they're not making your job simpler, they're not doing their jobs.

How do you minimize product duplication?" or "How do you rationalize product investments on a global basis?

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

Plan to throw away all sound, art, and code created for a prototype. That way your artists, audio people, and programmers can work quickly without worrying about having to debug their content later. Trying to build production-quality assets during preproduction just slows the process down. Once

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

The fact that I have to set things to record seems idiotic. And channel guides - I get home, and I want to watch a Duke basketball game; why do I have to go hunting to find out what channel it's on? Why can't I just say, 'I want to watch Duke basketball.' Or, even better, why doesn't the system know that?

One of the biggest wastes of time is doing something well that didn't need to be done at all.

It's a Secret of Adulthood: The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

If you think about stripping away 80 percent of the things that don't matter and focusing on the the 20 percent that will actually make a difference, I think you'll find great results even in the toughest of situations and the harshest of environments.

Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

We fundamentally want to make people's lives simpler. So we will look for technology that works toward that end.

Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.

Simplicity helps you keep the main thing the main thing and things unimportant.

Moving to one show each season will significantly help to simplify many aspects of our business. Maintaining two separate, disconnected calendars has been a result of tradition rather than practicality.