Quotes About Efficiency

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

I quit shoelaces a long time ago.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

You put your time where your priority is.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time

Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

You multiply your time by spending time on things today that will give you more time tomorrow.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.