Quotes About Efficiency

I apologize for the length of this letter. If I had had more time, it would have been shorter.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, unless, of course, you are congress.

Es ist idiotisch, sieben oder acht Monate an einem Roman zu schreiben, wenn man in jedem Buchladen für zwei Dollar einen kaufen kann.

Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow actually responsible.

They started using pink in the OR under the mistaken assumption that doctors wouldn't want to be seen in pink scrubs in the cafeteria or elsewhere. Very shortly after the introduction of "OR only" pink scrubs, pink scrubs were everywhere, including neighborhood basketball courts. If everyone wore surgical scrubs instead of regular clothing, we could save trillions of dollars. There is no other way to fully clothe a person for less than ten dollars.

No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years.

The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency. I'd rather climb back into Hostile One's mouth.

Churchill was in his element; work and a clear plan.

This book does not agree with this view. It cannot be assumed that efficient asset allocation will result if investment decisions are made by the investing equivalent of kelp and plankton of the marine food chain—uneducated passive reactors whose goal in investing is to outperform a market consistently.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Surely the game is hardly worth the candle.

Mi cerebro es como un motor en marcha, que se destroza porque no esta embragado a la máquina para la que fue construido.

One method of economy is 'leaving out' - firstly, everything that by the writer's standards is irrelevamt, in the second place everything that is obvious, i.e. which the reader can and should supply out of his own imagination. 'The more bloody good stuff you cut out the more bloody good your novel will be,' Hemingway advised a young writer.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

O maior benefício das ferrovias é o fato de elas pouparem uma existência miserável a milhões de cavalos de tiro.

Ordinary people think merely how they shall spend their time; a man of any talent tries to use it.

Politeness. Obedience. Loyalty. Intelligence. Courtesy. Efficiency.

People often don't understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume government equals corruption, private companies equal efficiency. But government officials are not genetically programmed to be corrupt. Corruption is linked to power. If it is the corporations that are powerful, then they will be corrupt.

They were State-of-the-Art machines. They could flatten history and stack it up like building material.

The post-massacre protocol was quick and efficient- perfected by practice. Within an hour the dead bodies had been removed to the morgue in the Police Control Room, and the wounded to hospital. The street was hosed down, the blood directed into the open drains. Shops reopened. Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

It is common to misconceive how checklists function in complex lines of work. They are not comprehensive how-to guides, whether for building a skyscraper or getting a plane out of trouble. They are quick and simple tools aimed to buttress the skills of expert professionals. And by remaining swift and usable and resolutely modest, they are saving thousands upon thousands of lives. *