Quotes About Streamlining

Keep everything as simple as possible but no simpler.

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

If you want to be fast and agile, keep things simple. Speed isn't the result of simplicity, but simplicity enables speed.

Large portions of the productivity gains from agile methods come not from doing things better, but from not doing them at all.

It always amazes me, how swiftly problems can be solved, once you start cutting things off people.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

Programmers can be lazy.

One of the hardest areas is duplication; everyone knows there's lots of duplication in government. But when you ask someone, 'OK, name two programs that are duplicative,' typically there's a long pause.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.

The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated.

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

Why did the act of simplifying your life seem so complicated and require so much effort? Why was there never any time to do it?

We have to create that strength, and sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy. It just gets in our way.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is essential.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary.

simplification, 80–20 style, leads to more business as usual.

On a basic level, there are three general methods to simplifying your life: stopping expansion, reining in your routine, and reducing clutter.