Quotes About Efficiency

If the shelves are dusty and the pots don't shine, it's because I have better things to do with my time.

Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

Mistakes are never frowned upon as a piece of glaring inefficiency, but are regarded as very good lessons for us by which we can profit to the fullest extent.

There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt ax because he did not have the time, he said, to stop and sharpen the blade.

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Claude understands that he ought to resent them, but he admires their competence and manners, the clean efficiency with which they move. They always seem to be going somewhere and never doubt that it is the right place to be going. Something his own country has lacked.

It was about growing in more efficient ways. That seemed like a reasonable idea. Why would it meet with such fierce resistance?

Forget all the twiddly bits, Mr Bond. These superchargers! All they do is suck, squeeze, bang and blow. Who

It's like that old story about Gorky, you know. He was supposed to have visited a wonderful, modern, efficient factory — everything humming along at top speed — but when he asked them what they made, they told him "We make signs that say 'Elevator Out of Order'.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

If I buy a car, I use the car, you don't, and the market for cars works pretty well. But there are many other sorts of goods, often very important goods, which are not provided well through the market. Often, these go under the heading of public goods.

There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.

Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.

Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.

I sometimes can't be bothered, dare I say, to spend a copious amount of time on my hair and my face before I go out into the public eye.

In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.