Quotes About Efficiency

We need a first-class transportation system.

Cars are now saying, 'I need special features because I'm going to rely on the network for mission critical things, safety, transportation efficiency.'

Uber, like Google, is taking a highly disorganized business - in its case, private transportation such as taxicabs and private limousines - and ordering it neatly.

I love public transportation! Who wants to sit in a car and be angry at other drivers for eight hours? I'd rather sit on a bus or train and read a book.

Most of the time, I get around perfectly well on my bike and public transportation, even in spite of the Bay Area's almost comically shambolic system.

It would almost seem that - dare I say this - private transportation is more efficient than mass public-transit!

The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation.

The secret of success in life is time rightly used.

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

Sometimes, convenience has the appearance of logic.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

The lazy man always does twice the work. (El bago siempre pasa double trabajo)

Solve problems, don't create them. A huge number of very dislikable people have this aggravating habit of either creating problems they can then solve to the acclaim of the multitudes, or blowing up the size of issues and then handing them off to others. Try to not do that.

Conservation of energy," said Churchill, "Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

Er trat ruhig und gelassen auf den Tisch zu. Ohne sich vorzustellen - >Ihr wißt, wer ich bin, und wer ihr seid, interessiert mich nicht<, schien diese Unhöflichkeit zu besagen -, begann er mit fachmännischer Trockenheit die sachlichen Anordnungen.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

armies could go through a lake of gas in the blink of an eye. Take the medium-sized German Panther tank, used from the middle of 1943 to the end of the war. The Panther carried a Maybach V-12 engine that got about a third of a mile per gallon on good roads, and even less than that

I was forever late, in a rush, my foot heavy on the pedal, haunted by something I'd forgotten to do, to pay, to sign. I ate on the run, balanced hot coffee while shifting in traffic, and dreamed of being organized, believing I could be if only I had the right containers.

100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.