Quotes About Efficiency

Today, we should look for people with great organizational skills to run a government - not just leaders, who are good with people.

The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.

I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it and it's done quickly.

I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.

I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf - just effortless actors.

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

We love things that are convenient.

As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.

I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!

Ramona was not interested in tools or thinking things over and figuring things out. She was interested in results. Fast.

History, Jared Diamond notes, is full of diseases that 'once caused terrifying epidemics and then disappeared as mysteriously as they had come38'. He cites the robust but mercifully transient English sweating sickness, which raged from 1485 to 1552, killing tens of thousands as it went, before burning itself out. Too much efficiency is not a good thing for any infectious organism.

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law.

Never has anyone milked a single thought more vigorously and successfully than he did. The line for which he is remembered was "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law. It was first elucidated in a comic essay he wrote for The Economist in 1955 while he was a professor at the University of Malaya in Singapore.

litres for Neandertals versus 1.4 for modern people, according to one calculation. This is more than the difference between modern Homo sapiens and late Homo erectus, a species we are happy to regard as barely human. The argument put forward is that although our brains were smaller, they were somehow more efficient. I believe I speak the truth when I observe that nowhere else in human evolution is such an argument made.

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion

can take up to ten million years to clean an ocean—but if you are not in a hurry it is marvellously efficient. Perhaps

Bipedalism is a demanding and risky strategy.

I am a little dubious about this myself because I think that if you give anyone anywhere an extra twenty minutes, they will just have a cup of coffee. It's what you and I would do. It's what anyone does with twenty minutes.

was just very compact, not much larger than a standard wardrobe. But it was a marvel of ergonomics. It included