Quotes About Efficiency

If you can store the labour of others for future use, then you can spare yourself the time and the energy of working for your own immediate needs

If you can store the labour of others for future use, then you can spare yourself the time and the energy of working for your own immediate needs, which means you can invest in something new that will bring even greater reward.

That is possible only because each square metre is encouraged to grow whatever it is good at growing and global trade distributes the result to ensure that everybody gets a bit of everything

The cumulative accretion of knowledge by specialists that allows us each to consume more and more different things by each producing fewer and fewer is, I submit, the central story of humanity.

a smaller quantity of labour produce a greater quantity of work'.

The characteristic signature of prosperity is increasing specialisation.

The more human beings diversified as consumers and specialised as producers, and the more they then exchanged, the better off they have been, are and will be.

Had I only known it, experiments in laboratories by the economist Vernon Smith and his colleagues have long confirmed that markets in goods and services for immediate consumption – haircuts and hamburgers – work so well that it is hard to design them so they fail to deliver efficiency and innovation; while markets in assets are so automatically prone to bubbles and crashes that it is hard to design them so they work at all.

A good test for DevEx is how easy it is to onboard a new Developer to the platform.

We like to think that Team Topologies is another piece of this puzzle—in particular, having clear and fluid team structures, responsibilities, and interaction modes.

The simplest answer is that scientific management fulfilled too many hopes and prayers to be ignored merely on account of its logical and factual deficiencies.

Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. Whoever had the better horse won both the cards. You repeated this until someone had all the cards. So, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. Which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it.

I am out of ideas and need to conserve my energy so I can freak out more efficiently.

Office of Confusion and Panic

Even if you knew your routine like the back of your hand, a checklist was still important.

Peter, 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." (578)

The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line—it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter.

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.

What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? There's two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster.

He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him.

will, when he gets here. But, boy!—I'd work for him as a cinder sweeper. He'd blast through this valley like a rocket. He'd triple everybody's production." "Who's that?" "Hank Rearden.

shortest distance between two points is not a straight line—it's a middleman.

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. It used to take me five hours to fill that tank. It now takes three. The two I saved are mine—as pricelessly mine as if I moved my grave two further hours away for every five I've got. It's two hours released from one task, to be invested in another—two more hours in which to work, to grow, to move forward. That's

There was an expert competence in his manner of working; his movements were easy, intelligently economical.