Quotes About Efficiency

I hate to keep treating the universe like it is a living being, but the way I think of it is that the universe wants to deal with changes in time in the most efficient way possible. And it wants to maintain a single timeline, as infinite timelines aren't very efficient.

The march of history is that of the human race obeying the mantra of the motivational triad—attempting to attain more pleasure, for less pain, with ever-greater efficiency.

The industrialist's dream was to replace them entirely—with machines.

A few employees are fine while a company is getting going, but eventually all of those skills need to be automated in order for the company to "scale" infinitely. This is why Facebook wants AIs or—at worst—its users to monitor and tag offensive posts instead of paid human employees.

Is a programmer who gets 99% of assignments done on time and 95% error free better than one who gets only 92% done on time but with a 99% error-free rate? Is total product quality higher if the defect rate is 15% lower but customer returns are 10% higher? Is "strategic alignment" higher if the profit went up by 10% but the "total quality index" went down by 5%?

measure what matters, make better decisions.

Consider these statistics. It used to cost Farm Journal, a client of Key Survey, an average of $4 to $5 per respondent for a 40- to 50-question survey of farmers. Now, using Key Survey, it costs Farm Journal 25 cents per survey, and it is able to survey half a million people.

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

But do you want to be efficient like a machine, or fruitful like a tree?

Creating, Maintaining and leading Technologies without gender diversity and inclusion is mainly source of Risks and Inefficiency

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Dr. Shreenivas R. Deshpande

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well well spend it together.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

Life's too short to be working with divas.

I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.