Quotes About Efficiency

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Hit 'em where they ain't.

You may be fast but you still accel at wasting time!

Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.

Do you think there's really a job where all you do is count the number of threads in a sheet? It sounds a whole lot easier than the Laundromat and the diner.

it seemed efficient cargo area filling was yet another suburban skill at which Madeline Singer excelled.

It was something they did without thinking. They had formed meditation habits. High "self-controllers" achieved desired outcomes by streamlining, not struggling.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power" Alfred Whitehead math text

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further.

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

You can't have a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant

Squiggly light bulbs and Priuses, whatever value they have, come out of the industrial mind. Ecological agriculture has the disciplines of ecology and evolutionary biology to call on, based on millions of years of emerging efficiencies such as those seen in nature's prairie ecosystems. The industrial sector has no such organizing discipline to call on.

The right tool turns work into fun."

You don't catch big fish with a small pole, nor do you catch small fish with a big hook."

He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

When physicians are under time pressure, they are apparently more inclined to choose a quick-fix solution, despite its serious downsides.

The principle of independent judgments (and decorrelated errors) has immediate applications for the conduct of meetings, an activity in which executives in organizations spend a great deal of their working days. A simple rule can help: before an issue is discussed, all members of the committee should be asked to write a very brief summary of their position.

you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.