Quotes About Efficiency

In coding, as in carpentry, you need the right tool for the job.

a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

San Pedro prison, apart from being a social microcosm, is also a microeconomy that operates under basic capitalist principles. In fact, it's probably more efficient than the whole Bolivian national economy. And more democratic, too, but I'll explain the prison election system to you another day.

our brains are designed for best learning when less loaded.

Zwo?ali?my zebranie w sprawie wniosków i przyj?li?my wniosek, ?eby zwo?a? zebranie w sprawie walki z niepunktualno?ci?. Zwo?ali?my zebranie w sprawie walki z niepunktualno?ci? i przyj?li?my wniosek, ?eby si? nie spó?nia?.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

The entire process is like ordering a pizza where once the customer lists out the requirement and then the system takes over," says Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI

it is singularly unpleasant—for you and for those at the receiving end. It is also counterproductive and therefore inefficient.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

I knew that Malcolm X had an almost fanatical obsession about time. I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else , for this type is not time-conscious, he had once told me.

Una casa limpia es señal de una vida desperdiciada.

Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

intellectual challenge inasmuch as it had to be highly scalable, reliable, and

focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

Do it fast, simple, and right the first time (and did we mention fast?).

guiding principles about the system: "Do it fast, simple, and right the first time (and did we mention fast?)." They wrote these "laws" on a white board, and they stuck. They forced us to create code that was simple and efficient, and this is what ultimately gave us the ability to scale.

Most of what we say and do is not necessary, and its omission would save both time and trouble. At every step, therefore, a man should ask himself, 'Is this one of the things that are superfluous?' Moreover, not idle actions only but even idle impressions ought to be suppressed; for the unnecessary action will not ensue.

No pointless actions.

Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.

Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these

Sir, I'm afraid that the quality of this airline is partly measured by on-time departures. And unfortunately, on-time departures are measured by when we left the gate, not by wheels-up.