Quotes About Efficiency

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

A job candidate might say, "I am not experienced in this field, but I am a very fast learner." An information systems salesperson might state, "Our set-up costs are not the lowest; however, you'll recoup them quickly due to our superior efficiencies.

The renowned British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead recognized this inescapable quality of modern life when he asserted that "civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them." Take, for example, the "advance" offered to civilization by the discount coupon, which allows consumers to assume that they will receive a reduced purchase price by presenting the coupon.

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI B

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI

Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead

As the stimuli saturating our lives continue to grow more intricate and variable, we will have to depend increasingly on our shortcuts to handle them all.

Medicare's administrative costs are only 3 percent, far below the 30 percent average administrative costs of private insurers.

You spread yourself out too thin, my son. A man who can do everything can do nothing. We specialize in our country. I hire men who can do only one thing, and do that thing better than anybody else.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Utilizing wind energy to fuel data centers would be equally problematic. To demonstrate that, consider the Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon, which needs 28 megawatts of power.46 The areal power density of wind energy—and it doesn't matter where you put your wind turbines—is 1 watt per square meter.47 (I will address wind energy in a later chapter.) Therefore, just to fuel the Facebook data center with wind will require about 28 million square meters of land.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

You should plan on working 60 hours per week. The first 40 are for your employer. The remaining 20 are for you. During this remaining 20 hours you should be reading, practicing, learning and otherwise enhancing your career.