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Quotes About Efficiency

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
~ Geddy Lee
Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
~ Sam Ewing
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else
~ Tom Holt
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
~ Bill Gates
You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
~ Laurie Anderson
What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet.
~ Steve Jobs
For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.
~ Alec Soth
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
~ B. F. Skinner
If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.
~ Gerry Lopez
The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.
~ Walter Wriston
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way
~ Astro Teller
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
~ Brian Eno
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.
~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.
~ Ray Stata
Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.
~ Jay Chiat
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
~ Bill Gates
The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.
~ Jacque Fresco
Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.
~ Ridley Pearson, Killer View
Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.
~ John Sculley
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
~ E. F. Schumacher
Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.
~ Matt Blunt
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
~ J. K. Galbraith