Quotes About Efficiency

In 1974, it cost $1,442 (in 2011 dollars) to fly from New York to Los Angeles; today it can be done for less than $300.

When robotic cars are ubiquitous, they could save more than a million lives a year, becoming one of the greatest gifts to human life since the invention of antibiotics.

In addition to beating back hunger, the ability to grow more food from less land has been, on the whole, good for the planet.

If agricultural efficiency had remained the same over the past fifty years while the world grew the same amount of food, an area the size of the United States, Canada, and China combined would have had to be cleared and plowed.

technology expert Kevin Kelly has proposed that "over time, if a technology persists long enough, its costs begin to approach (but never reach) zero.

Rule Seventeen. Omit needless words! Omit needless words! Omit needless words!

In the mid-19th century it took twenty-five men a full day to harvest and thresh a ton of grain; today one person operating a combine harvester can do it in six minutes.

For returning "washday" to our lives, Hans Rosling suggests, the washing machine deserves to be called the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Ecomodernists point out that organic farming, which needs far more land to produce a kilogram of food, is neither green nor sustainable.)

In the mid-19th century it took twenty-five men a full day to harvest and thresh a ton of grain; today one person operating a combine harvester can do it in six minutes.17

Given the costs of information, the perfect can be the enemy of the good.

Thanks to the Green Revolution, the world needs less than a third of the land it used to need to produce a given amount of food.23 Another way of stating the bounty is that between 1961 and 2009 the amount of land used to grow food increased by 12 percent, but the amount of food that was grown increased by 300 percent.24 In addition to beating back hunger, the ability to grow more food from less land has been, on the whole, good for the planet.

century, the amount of life that people lost to housework—which, not surprisingly, people say is their least favorite way to spend their time—fell almost fourfold, from 58 hours a week in 1900 to 15.5 hours in 2011.13 Time spent on laundry alone fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to 1.5 in 2014.14 For returning "washday" to our lives, Hans Rosling suggests, the washing machine deserves to be called the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution.

I love how you just make coffee and then somehow something gets done.

I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

Lo que pasa es que, cuando llevas un tiempo casado, cada vez te cuesta más perderte en el sexo como antes. Es porque te has vuelto demasiado eficiente, has aprendido lo que funciona y lo que no, por lo que los juegos preliminares, el acto y el orgasmo se pueden condensar en un periodo de cinco a siete minutos. El buen sexo requiere de muchas cosas diferentes, pero en la mayoría de los casos, la eficiencia no es una de ellas.

For my team and staff, I always plan ahead. It is important that my team are managed in the correct fashion and that the planning for their training and games is complete so there is nothing holding us back.

If you want to become invaluable in a workplace—in any community—just do the useful things no one else is doing. Arrive earlier and leave later than your compatriots (but do not deny yourself your life).1 Organize what you can see is dangerously disorganized. Work, when you are working, instead of looking like you are working.

Assume first that you are doing the easiest thing, and not the most difficult.