Quotes About Efficiency

I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.

I believe those that produce the least emissions in autos will also be those who have the greatest success worldwide.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?

If you have items in your closet that you haven't worn in a year, then you're never going to wear them.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

When there's a rule that you can use only three engines for the whole season, and you are a team that is not worried about 2018, you are worried about being world champions in 2020, you need to make progress.

You can't really get as much done when you're worried about looking gross.

When we're worried about a bureaucracy and keeping the bureaucracy going, you're always going to make mistakes.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, 'Don't worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.'

Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.

My only problem, and this has been a constant worry on television, is time management. The deadlines on television are killing.

Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

I try not to eat right before I perform. It's better to perform on an empty stomach - it just feels better. You just feel like a leaner machine. You're not worrying about digesting things.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste it - slows down the momentum of cooking.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get.

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.