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Quotes About Efficiency

Healthcare is an area that has the greatest potential to benefit from technology.
~ Tamilisai Soundararajan
I try to eat almost the same thing every day, as it makes food shopping and what to eat much easier as well as healthier.
~ Andrea Navedo
They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.
~ Rick Smolan
Pincurling is my secret! I wear my hair wavy alot, and so I don't have to use all that excess heat every day trying to curl it; I just pincurl it.
~ LeToya Luckett
I'm not much of a hectic packer and prefer to travel light.
~ Kunal Khemu
I do fly to work by helicopter. It's a reality.
~ Mike Ashley
What I always keep in mind is that we'll take action on things that need to be done, promptly and without hesitation.
~ Yoshihide Suga
I have worked out I can quite happily jog the distance to work as long as I hail a cab first and leave my high heels on the back seat.
~ Emily Maitlis
Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
~ Hanna Rosin
I really don't want the best people at the highest cost.
~ Mark V. Hurd
The 20th century was all about hierarchies: if you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever it is. Your goal is to create a highly efficient hierarchical model, scale it, because that's what the competition's doing.
~ Chris Fussell
I don't think anyone in that Roc Nation office gets eight hours of sleep; I highly doubt it. They're constantly working, and they're on top of everything, and they have a department for everything.
~ Andre Ward
Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers.
~ Oren Etzioni
It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
~ Nargis Fakhri
I am certain that he both thought and worked better, because he both thought and worked.
~ George MacDonald
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing
~ George Orwell
In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it? Money has become the grand test of virtue.
~ George Orwell
In practice nobody cares if work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable. In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it? Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised.
~ George Orwell
There's time for everything except the things worth doing.
~ George Orwell
Philosophically, Communism and Anarchism are poles apart. Practically—i.e. in the form of society aimed at—the difference is mainly one of emphasis, but it is quite irreconcilable. The Communist's emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchist's on liberty and equality.
~ George Orwell
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.
~ George Orwell
That's the way we're going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else.
~ George Orwell
Sharp knives, of course, are the secret of a successful restaurant.
~ George Orwell
But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded. As we have seen, researches that could be called scientific are still carried out for the purposes of war, but they are essentially a kind of daydreaming, and their failure to show results is not important. Efficiency, even military efficiency, is no longer needed.
~ George Orwell