Quotes About Efficiency

When used to best advantage, exceptions can improve a program's readability, reliability, and maintainability. When used improperly, they can have the opposite effect.

A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they're invoked.

Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.

Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied all the pages on the Xerox machine, and sat at his desk reading what looked passebly like the honest pages of business. He's make it through a three-hundred-page novel every two or three days.

United States and Australia, use more per person, whereas others, like Japan and Britain, use less. Americans drive bigger cars than Japanese do, and drive more rather than take trains, and they live in bigger homes that are kept warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Americans consequently emit more carbon pollution than do people in more energy-efficient countries.

I cannot abide useless people.

Charles Dickens dijo: "Nunca podría haber hecho lo que he hecho sin los hábitos de puntualidad, orden y diligencia, sin la determinación de concentrarme en un único tema cada vez".

Cuando nos negamos a utilizar nuestro tiempo para hacer las cosas que necesitamos hacer, siempre terminamos perdiendo tiempo ocupándonos de las emergencias y la confusión que hemos creado al posponer las cosas.

Estoy comenzando a pagar. Más vale empezar temprano, para terminar pronto.

Sto cominciando a pagare. E' meglio iniziare presto, per finire in fretta.

Go as fast as you can, but never hurry. Remember that in the moment you begin to hurry you cease to be a creator and become a competitor; you drop back upon the old plane again.

La causa del fracaso es hacer muchísimas cosas de una forma ineficiente y no hacer lo suficiente de una forma eficiente.

The switch from sales ladies behind each counter in five-and-dime stores to checkout lines, from waiter-served to self-service and fast-food restaurants, from full-service to self-service gasoline stations are among the responses to higher labor costs. So, too, are the absence of movie theater ushers and the wide use by restaurants of plastic utensils and paper plates, because they do not require dishwashing.

What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they're dragging you down. They're turning you into Microsoft. They're causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.

But the reformers were right: the bovine digestive system is an extraordinarily efficient mechanism for converting grass, fodder, and even forage into fertilizer.15 Their shit-savings were a form of liquid capital.

All of us have so much more time than we use well. How many hours in a life are spent in a way of which one might be proud, looking back?

To Mayo, this meant "passing down the chain of command the handling of all details to the lowest link in the chain which could properly handle them," while keeping in hand matters of policy and strategic importance.

Halsey was a guy who got things done and King definitely liked and respected that quality.

Lo bueno debe ser útil. Lo útil es bueno. El tipo A, congruente con su afán acaparador, hace de la obtención de logros su bandera de lucha. Por tal razón, abandonar los resultados es casi una blasfemia y un sinsentido ridículo, producto de un romanticismo ingenuo.

The factory of the future will have two employees a man and a dog. The man's job will be to feed the dog. The dog's job will be to prevent the man from touching any of the automated equipment.

The elegant simplicity of Square (and that of Dorsey's earlier creation, Twitter) is a product of rigorous inquiry: Dorsey maintains that good design is about removing unnecessary features by continually asking, Do we really need this? and What can we take away?

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life–so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.