Quotes About Efficiency

Great leaders make an impact with limited resources and inefficient leaders cannot yield good returns even with abundant resources.

Do not hire those who are incapable.Do not fire those who are capable.A small, devoted army is greaterthan a large, indifferent one.

Lead competently.Lead productively.Lead skillfully.Lead excellently.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I'd much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

while you play bowling with one ball you will be late because untill come in that ball it's need time so you need more than one ball in order to defeat the whole army .

Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.