Quotes About Efficiency

Call had never noticed that he had a trick. The man never wasted five minutes appreciating himself; it would have meant losing five minutes off whatever job he had decided he wanted to get done that day.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris

Garbage is usually construed as useless complexity.

People get more work done when they don't talk.

That machine's a great invention!" he said. "Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there's one anywhere in the neighborhood.

Father always maintained that a man would do more work in twelve hours, if he had a rest and all the egg-nog he could drink, morning and afternoon.

This is what happens when you treat your 168 hours as a blank slate. This is what happens when you fill them up only with things that deserve to be there. You build a life where you really can have it all.

I can accomplish more before breakfast than I used to do in a day.

Quit drawing out the story

Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.

no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It is a rule.

Luca never stands when he can lean.

If Amy had been around for the creation of the world, Jane had no doubt that she would have chivvied the Lord into creating the earth in two days rather than seven.

You have reached the home and workplace of Roberto Natchez. I do not often take calls. I make no promise to return them. I have much to do. You may leave a message if you wish.

First and foremost a pragmatist, he had no time for the interference of unnecessary standards.

One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.