Quotes About Efficiency

A hypereffective schedule designed to maximize productivity is, in fact, more likely to distract you from what's important than help you discover it.

and he learned that when Johnson gave an assignment, no excuses were accepted. "He used to say, 'I want only can do people.' That was one of his favorite expressions. 'I only want can do people around. I don't want anybody who tells me that they can't do something.' 

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

That was smart, that was engineering: never reinvent something that you can buy down the street.

Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it's useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.

If you load a mud foot down with a lot of gadgets that he has to watch, somebody a lot more simply equipped—say with a stone ax—will sneak up and bash his head in while he is trying to read a vernier.

The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily.

They were all three amazingly beautiful; they were also amazingly good secretaries. In Harshaw's opinion the principle of least action required that utility and beauty be combined.

The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily. "Nevertheless

Take your time and do it right, even if it takes another half second.

I wanted us to get out of production. Jake Schmidt, our production shop master, was a good man; nevertheless I was forever being jerked out of a warm creative fog to straighten out bugs in production—which is like being dumped out of a warm bed into ice water. This was the real reason why I had been doing so much nightwork and staying away from the shop in the daytime.

The long knives made short work.

noise is always a byproduct of inefficiency. A correctly designed engine is as silent as the grave.

It was widely known though rarely mentioned that an eager young bride could accomplish in seven months or less what takes nine for cow or countess.

more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better—and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

Any human organization can be rendered useless, impotent, a danger to itself, by selectively removing its best minds while carefully leaving the stupid ones in place.

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For myself, I long since came to the firm conclusion that a man can do more productive work, and make more money if that is his object, by sitting down with his hands in his pockets than by any form of physical activity. Do you happen to know the average yearly income of a meteor miner? Well, no, but— Less than six hundred a year. But some of them get rich!

Your computers must be three-phase A.C.

If a table has four legs, which one can you afford to throw away?