Quotes About Efficiency

Like they say in England, why buy a dog and bark yourself?' Back

We need to make fast decisions here. We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

the smart money never bets on the DoD having gotten exactly what it paid for. The

Reacher always arranged the smallest details in his life so he could move on at a split second's notice. It was an obsessive habit. He owned nothing and carried nothing. Physically he was a big man, but he cast a small shadow and left very little in his wake.

But nobody had been interested in inert and prosaic things like crowbars.

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it's difficult to do productive work and fume simultaneously—the labor dissipates your righteous steam—so

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Hari yang dilewatkan dengan baik, akan menghasilkan tidur yang nyenyak.

Wenn auch der menschliche Geist durch vielfache Erfindungen mit verschiedenen Instrumenten auf dasselbe Ziel zugeht, nie wird er eine Erfindung machen, die schöner, leichter und kürzer wäre als die Natur.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

If I had but the time and you had but the brain

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

explanations take such a dreadful time

Si cada uno se ocupase de lo suyo el mundo iría mucho más deprisa de lo que va.

Si todo el mundo se ocupara de sus propios asuntos , el mundo giraría mucho más rápido

That technics has often lagged behind culture, that the efficiency of the assembly line, for example, might be, humanly speaking, a mark of social backwardness, seems never to have occurred to the exponents of unqualified technological progress.

How much slower the work went when the joy of it was gone.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

An ugly system is one in which there are special interfaces for everything you want to do. Unix is the opposite. It gives you the building blocks that are sufficient for doing everything. That's what having a clean design is all about.

Benevolent dictator? No, I'm just lazy. I try to manage by not making decisions and letting things occur naturally. That's when you get the best results.

Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE FUCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the fuck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?