Quotes About Efficiency

The most popular labor saving device is still money.

There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

Do you believe in love at first sight?I don't know but it saves an awful lot of time

Stop letting unnecessary thoughts feed your mind. It's nugatory. Focus on your long-time goals and maximize your 86, 400 seconds today.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

MacKaye never varied his equipment: a Gibson SG guitar and a Marshall amplifier. "Even though I know that there's a lot of options, I'm not interested in options," he says. "I'm interested in how far I can take this simple equation, which is an amp, a cord, and a guitar, and how much I can do with it.

The idea behind K, as Johnson put it, was to strike "a good balance between running a business and helping people get their thing done." As he wrote in one of K's catalogs, "There are many different ways to measure success besides with a calculator.

his strongest desire was to return to farming, but Weizman had insisted that Hod replace him as air force chief early in 1966. Since then, he had concentrated on refining Focus, reducing the turnaround time for refueling and rearming jets to less than eight minutes. The Egyptian turnaround rate, by comparison, was eight hours. "He may not be able to quote [the Hebrew poet] Bialik or Shakespeare," Weizman said of Hod, "but he will screw the Arabs in plain Hebrew.

If you are spending more time matching your Kitchenaid to your kettle to your cupboards than you are cooking, something is very wrong.

She was on a roll and everybody knew it. It was what cops and prosecutors called being in the tube. It was a surfing reference. It meant they had ridden the case into the water tunnel where everything was going smoothly and perfectly and was surrounding them in glorious balance.

the computers provided by the department were old and slow and most of them carried more viruses than a Hollywood Boulevard hooker.

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Why does it still take as long to clean the house as it did in 1930?

Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.

And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly.

She had discovered long ago that you could use a computer without understanding how it worked. Just as you could use an automobile, vacuum cleaner - or your own brain.

The Japanese have a saying: fix the problem, not the blame. In American organizations it's all about who fucked up. Whose head will roll. In Japanese organizations it's about what's fucked up, and how to fix it. Nobody gets blamed. Their way is better.

What advances?" Malcolm said irritably. "The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Why does it still take as long to clean the house as it did in 1930?

Multi-XMP? You mean more than one Cray?

The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics… Why does it still take as long to clean the house as it did in 1930?

Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.

What would best serve our customer here? How could I most easily give the customer what he wants while also maximizing profits for the company?

Begin by quantifying everything related to how you do business. I mean everything.