Quotes About Inefficiency

Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

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

The traffic was moving about the speed of a government

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

Meanwhile, the conquest of the Great Plains had enabled ranchers to breed massive herds of cattle, without a corresponding population base of humans to feed. You could ship live cattle by train to the eastern states to be slaughtered locally, but transporting entire cows was expensive, and the animals were often malnourished or even injured en route. Almost half would be inedible by the time they arrived in New York or in Boston.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Rent control created deadweight loss.

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to and efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers.

Markets weed out inefficient practices, but only when no one has sufficient power to manipulate them.

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'

Waste is the word coined by mankind to hide their incapabilities & unawareness to use something usefully

It was said in Clan Campbell that there were a dozen ways of wasting your breath, and talking to Gerald were six of them.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the reasons given out by their successors taking too much credit, however heroic their actions at the time of crisis (but so often in the past hopeless).

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.

Government on its own is always inefficient.