Quotes About Efficiency

Right from the start, she felt at home with them. They sensed it, too, and soon, following her pattern, she was treating twice, then three times as many patients as anyone else at the hospital. More important, she was getting results, with patients and families increasingly requesting her as their therapist. The V.A. staff took notice, happy to have someone carry the elephant's load.

Civil servants have an extraordinary genius for wrapping up a simple idea to make it sound extremely complicated.

Except that death collected everyone. Death is like that. Relentlessly efficient.

According to the schedule, the entire block from 8:00 to 8:30 has been labeled BRUSH YOUR TEETH. Earl laughs again and walks over to the bathroom. [...] 'Who needs half an hour to brush their teeth?'

speed without having to burn any more gas. The downside of this

'Tis as cheap sitting as standing.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

I work for the Spandler Corporation. We are a three-hundred-million-dollar business, with offices in twelve states. We have over five hundred employees. We are known throughout the country as a leader in the industry. Our customers rely heavily on us. We produce nothing. We sell nothing. We buy nothing. If we didn't exist, Kafka would have to invent us.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

the maximum number of syllables in the minimum number of seconds,

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En vista de lo cual ella decidió que fueran en el coche de él, con uno de esos impulsos románticos que tienen las mujeres cuando se trata de ahorrar gasolina.

activismo y actividad. En el primer caso, uno se mueve intensamente de acá para allá, pero con poco fruto, es un movimiento que se hace de cara a la galería, de escasa productividad, que suena mucho hacia fuera, pero tiene pocos resultados. En cambio, el segundo es menos ruidoso, pero más efectivo: labor callada, lenta y de resultados prometedores.

Good. Illegal is always faster.

For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as a superhuman Law, it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours.

Wasteful moves are eliminated, and more and more purpose is condensed into each move. "Beautiful friendships" are often based on the fact that the players complement each other with great economy and satisfaction, so that there is a maximum yield with a minimum effort from the games they play with each other.

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

This is a generation best summed up by the kid that will stand in front of a microwave oven shouting, "Come on, I ain't got all minute!

Hierarchies are critical in enabling networks to reach larger sizes before diseconomies of scale set in. This is why so many networks in the natural and computer worlds are structured as networks within networks.

JavaScript: When an event occurs, like the ones you've mentioned, that event is added to a queue. I don't even look at it until I've finished whatever I'm working on. That way I do everything correctly and safely and efficiently.

When you design, solve things in the simplest way possible. Your goal should be simplicity, not 'How can I apply a pattern to this problem.