Quotes About Efficiency

Usually, if I do a good job in the plus/minus category, I know I've had a good game.

Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.

Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.

We work the full year round to make 10 or 12 episodes, and 'The Good Wife' makes, like, 26 in that time or something, which I can't believe. I don't know how they do it.

I don't want to work more. I want to do limited but good work.

When we have a good work dynamic we don't need to ask too many questions of each other.

the lag time between collecting and acting on intelligence was slashed from sixteen hours to one minute. By

That was an all-purpose IBM 3070. It took up half a room and still did not have enough capacity to do all the jobs demanded of it.

Doing nothing is more expedient than doing something.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit at all.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

When men are to be led it is rarely wise to discuss policy or tactics with them. Most men work best when they know only what is expected of them. Then they can't get confused and they do not get ideas of how to do things better.

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

The team that wins makes minimum mistakes, and the one which loses, that one makes more mistakes than the other team.

Professional kitchens are studied to cook for countless people. At home, design often wins over functionality. A restaurant must be functional.

What wins still goes back to who you are as a player and what you do well. If you're a great 3-point shooter, you try to get as many of those shots as you can. If you're a good driver, get in the restricted area.

Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.

In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.

My winter uniform is jeans, boots, and an oversize blazer for good measure. It's my formula for getting dressed in under 10 minutes.

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.