Quotes About Efficiency

The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory. Boorman didn't think one had to be religious on this point. "It

The wording should be simple and exact, Boorman went on, and use the familiar language of the profession. Even the look of the checklist matters. Ideally, it should fit on one page. It should be free of clutter and unnecessary colors. It should use both uppercase and lowercase text for ease of reading. (He went so far as to recommend using a sans serif type like Helvetica.)

We know the patterns. We see the costs. It's time to try something else. Try a checklist.

To avoid fatigue and inattention, he did his work over the course of a week

I am reminded of how difficult and time-consuming it is to reinvent the pencil every time you want to send a message.

It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative and controlling. It put the other person constantly on-guard. And it was extremely intimidating because you never knew when she was going to snap. I made a mental note to refine these skills within myself.

Trying is not the same as being. Trying flies in a circle around the moment and *being* is inside of it.

Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.

She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!

Never Consume more than you produce.

I told them that the form of a building must follow its function.

Haw was beginning to realize the difference between activity and productivity.

Uno podría ser más consciente de la necesidad de conservar las cosas sencillas, ser más flexible y moverse más deprisa.

Haw empezaba a comprender la diferencia entre actividad y productividad.

They liked working in a company that valued action and results.

Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.

brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms.

The businessmen spoke little and did much, while the politicians did as little as possible and spoke much.

Then Marshall leaned forward—Eisenhower recalled years later that he had "an eye that seemed to me awfully cold"—and declared, "Eisenhower, the Department is filled with able men who analyze their problems well but feel compelled always to bring them to me for final solution. I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they have done.

The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand time smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965.

In any decent police state, they'd be a lot more efficient. In Red Spain, for example, toward the end, the discipline we had achieved was phenomenal. The Spaniards made excellent secret policemen.

If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

Put out more energy and it will return to you ... multiplied.

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.