Quotes About Efficiency

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

A story tells of Henry Ford's buying scrapped Ford cars and having his engineers disassemble them to see which parts failed and which were still in good shape. Engineers assumed this was done to find the weak parts and make them stronger. Nope. Ford explained that he wanted to find the parts that were still in good shape. The company could save money if they redesigned these parts to fail at the same time as the others.

What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.

How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.

Perception may seem effortless, but in fact it requires considerable energy. Each precious calorie you burn on perception is a calorie you must find and take from its owner—perhaps a potato or an irate wildebeest. Calories can be difficult and dangerous to procure, so evolution has shaped our senses to be misers.

We will discover that reducing batch size is usually the single most cost-effective way to reduce queues.

What should we change in our product development process? Eliminate waste? Increase quality? Raise efficiency? Shorten cycle time? The key to answering this question is to step back to a more basic question: Why do we want to change the product development process? The answer: to increase profits.

Our primary goal in product development is to make good economic choices. All proxy objectives, such as innovation, waste reduction, design for manufacturing, etc., should be viewed as secondary. They are a means to influence overall economic outcomes, never an end in themselves. In

government should be good at, relative to the private sector – namely, equality, efficiency, merit, fairness and justice.

Life is too short to learn German

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.