Quotes About Efficiency

I believe that if you hire a man to do a job, you ought to get out of the way and let him do it.

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

The statistical methods underlying productivity measurements tend to factor out gains by essentially concluding that we still get only one dollar of products and services for a dollar, despite the fact that we get much more for that dollar.

Computers are about one hundred million times more powerful for the same unit cost than they were a half century ago. If the automobile industry had made as much progress in the past fifty years, a car today would cost a hundredth of a cent and go faster than the speed of light. As

it took ninety years to achieve the first MIPS per thousand dollars; now we add one MIPS per thousand dollars every five hours.

Increasing complexity" on its own is not, however, the ultimate goal or end-product of these evolutionary processes. Evolution results in better answers, not necessarily more complicated ones. Sometimes a superior solution is a simpler one.

Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.

professionals who know what they are doing can "be counted on to follow a well-thought-out methodology

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

I don't say in the morning, 'Look, Leandra, here are a bunch of women. Put that bronzer down.' It's more that I'm busy and whatever helps you get out the door and go to sleep easier.

My schedule is pretty busy, so I've learned to do my makeup quickly because I prefer to sleep.

I love this... being busy and working every day.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

At the end of the day, I know what my bread and butter is and how I can be effective.

We didn't have any simulators. We had to do it on the track all the time. Now they've got simulators for everything. And, if they have an accident or go off, then you just press a button, re-set, and away you go again.

You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.

It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.

I am anal about my Gmail calendar. It's my life. I put everything in there - my to-do list, or even if I want to do things.

In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.

Camp is always all business.

That is the culture at Deloitte: To make sure we are all maximizing the capabilities that we have.

I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.

The point is always made that capitalism is efficient, people say 'You might not like it, but it works.' But Britain is not efficient.