Quotes About Efficiency

But all he could really do was his best, each moment. That was what mattered most—even more than the final outcome. Because the final outcome wasn't up to him alone.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow.

Tools amplify your talent. The better your tools, and the better you know how to use them, the more productive you can be.

By coding at a higher level of abstraction, you are free to concentrate on solving domain problems, and can ignore petty implementation details.

A Stitch in Time May save Nine.

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

I think once you get into the routine of race weekends, and there's more of a structure, it gets a bit easier.

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.

We operate in a world where you can have a package from Amazon arrive on your doorstep the same day; where Uber has a private driver at your front door within minutes; but when it comes to Congress, it takes three weeks for someone to get a form letter response to his or her questions.

In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist.

I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.

I'm not a musical theatre person, and I never will be, especially after seeing the way it operates. It's so incredibly inefficient. It takes three weeks to effect a change. It can be a lighting change, a script change, a musical change - you have to meet with six different departments, and about a month later, it may happen.

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.