Quotes About Efficiency

seconds are jewels beyond price in combat.

To say that Susan shopped would be like saying that sharks eat. It was disciplined frenzy. While

How to Manage Performance

Pike and his guys were hard-core professionals. Combat discipline was sacrosanct.

Amber was cooperative once she got on board, and Tyson was docile. We grabbed Tyson's backpack and toiletries, and Amber stuffed a few clothes and toiletries into a tote bag. I watched what they packed, and checked their bags. Amber moved quickly once she got going, and didn't whine or complain. Tyson said nothing, and avoided eye contact. I grabbed two towels from Amber's bathroom on the way out, and tossed a towel to Joe. He draped it over his gun.

used to take many long and uncomfortable hours in a bus, car, or train to journey between the deep interior of Croatia and the coast. But the building of several massive, graded, and multi-laned superhighways from Zagreb down the mountains to Rijeka, to Senj, to Zadar, and to Split along the Adriatic coast has cut the distance dramatically

With one change of buses I am in Split in under two and a half hours

If it is not worth doing, it is worth not doing it well.

You must avoid at all cost the idea that you can manage learning several skills at a time. You need to develop your powers of concentration, and understand that trying to multitask will be the death of the process.

skill and competence are far more important than friendly feelings.

Instead of wasting time negotiating with every difficult person, work on spreading a spirit of camaraderie and efficiency that becomes self-policing. Streamline the organization, cutting out waste—in staff, in the irrelevant reports on your desk, in pointless meetings.

Half of it was meticulously arranged as an office with her computer - faster and more powerful than an industrial-sized package of laxative - color-coded files, maps and the markers she used to organize her runs. The other half of the table was mine and empty. I wish I could say it was neatness, but when I had a run, I ran it. I didn't analyze it to death.

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

A greedy algorithm is an algorithm that shortcuts a full analysis in order to choose quickly an option that appears to work in the situation immediately at hand. They are often used by humans.

Kim Stanley Robinson

This is why tigers have ranges of hundreds of square kilometers, Vlad said. Robber barons are not really very efficient.

Robustness and resilience are in general inefficient; but they are robust, they are resilient. And we need that by design.

Jevons Paradox proposes that increases in efficiency in the use of a resource lead to an overall increase in the use of that resource, not a decrease.

Quickly, and working together, they

Det kan kastes meget tid bort på telegrafen.

Money expedited delivery.

Mr Gandhi thought)...The parliament system was too slow at times unproductive , and it never gave a free hand to the person at the top....

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.