Quotes About Efficiency

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

I wear a name tag to help people find me. It saves time when you're dealing with idiots.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Calm, Butler told himself. Passion is the enemy of efficiency.

Passion is the enemy of efficiency.

Python is good enough for code that only has to respond to a single user at human speed, but not usually for code that has to respond at machine speed

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).

Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.

Brook's Law: "Adding more programmers to a late project makes it later.

The verdict of history seems to be that free-market capitalism is the globally optimal way to cooperate for economic efficiency; perhaps, in a similar way, the reputation-game gift culture is the globally optimal way to cooperate for generating (and checking!) high-quality creative work.

Rule of Optimization: Prototype before polishing. Get it working before you optimize it.

The organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congruent

if you want the most efficient production, you must give up trying to make programmers produce. Handle their subsistence, give them their heads, and forget about deadlines.

Mixing languages is better than writing everything in one, if and only if using only that one is likely to overcomplicate the program.

Moser was a great believer in checklists.

The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers---those things are built into the operating systems and machines. Jobs that have been deskilled can be filled cheaply. The need to retain any individual worker is greatly reduced by the ease with which he or she can be replaced.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it.

Sesquihoral (adj.) Lasting an hour and a half. Because sometimes you just don't feel like saying "an hour and a half." Short-thinker

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

What we can learn from this extreme case, as well as from many cases of normal business conversation, is that psychological safety must be paired with discipline to achieve optimal results efficiently.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Pressure is how you know everything's working

In human resource management, an employee who brings in one point three times what he costs is worth his money. In other words an actual yield of thirty percent!