Quotes About Efficacy

Lowering the river of inventory is the heart of lean manufacturing.  Keep this centered in your mind and practice it.  People have a tendency to complicate things.  It is only because they really don't fully understand and appreciate the simplicity and power of reducing inventory.

Nonspecialist science education has to pass along a general sense of the content, methods, efficacy, and authority of science. Yet it must do so without evoking the complex of resentments and anxieties that so ominously besiege science in contemporary society. At best this would be a daunting task. In the current climate, where our various social and political mechanisms are pulling in a dozen different directions at once, it may be an impossible one.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

If a complete free market seemed efficacious in principle, in practice it had not delivered the basic services necessary for a country to call itself civilised.

the kind of retrieval practice that proves most effective is one that reflects what you'll be doing with the knowledge later. It's not just what you know, but how you practice what you know that determines how well the learning serves you later.