Quotes About Efficiency

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.

As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.

If bitcoin is more expensive or slower than traditional financial systems, people aren't going to use it.

There's no way you can go home and learn lines, because you need to go home and sleep. So I've figured out systems. I order two lunches so I can eat dinner before I leave work, so when I get home, I can just go to bed.

I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

Think about the systems at McDonald's. It's a very mechanized world, where you take out a highly processed patty.

Previously, we might use machine learning in a few sub-components of a system. Now we actually use machine learning to replace entire sets of systems, rather than trying to make a better machine learning model for each of the pieces.

I edit as I write and shoot. Any extra line, any pause that I know will get chopped on the editing table is done away with then and there.

In the amount of time it takes to microwave a TV dinner, you can put something much tastier on the table, I promise.

A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables, for that matter.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.

If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away.

I read articles in the gym in the morning on a tablet or phone. Then I print out a stack of them that I carry around with me throughout the workday.

In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.

Tablets are more intuitive than a PC or laptop. They also have more real estate than a smartphone.

Beyond helping people have a richer social life, Uber's also a model of collaborative commerce and efficiently tackling excess capacity.

The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.