Quotes About Efficiency

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

When I asked a Big Dog friend of mine whether it was important to sell up through an organization and obtain consensus along the way, he chuckled, and with a low growl said, "That would be a colossal waste of time—find the 'man,' set up the meeting and do the deal!

Please forgive the long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.

Reverend Fathers, my letters do not customarily follow one another so closely, nor are they usually so extensive. The little time I have had has caused both. I have made this one longer only because I have not had the leisure of making it shorter.

It's all these different capitalists, in far-flung parts of the world—and that's all the more so today: in far-flung parts of the world—it's all these capitalists in competition with each other, forcing each other to find ways to more efficiently produce, and more effectively exploit people, even if that means throwing a bunch of people out of work, or off the land, or whatever.

Les gens perdent leur temps à vivre, alors, il ne leur en reste plus pour travailler.

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

Nothing, I believe, inspires a man with such eagerness to begin his day's work as the sight of his instruments neatly laid out

It is my practice to index my Journal entries every other week or so. I find that this is more efficient than indexing them straight away. After some time has passed it is easier to separate the important from the ephemeral.

Reduce the duration of your showers by two to

You've got five minutes to get your ass up and in the shower, or the shower's coming to you.

Directo al grano, siempre lo digo. La vida es demasiado corta para gastarla en tonterías.

RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an "optimization problem.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it. I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.

I feel like a very efficient tool or weapon, used and in demand from moment to moment...

I stared through the Russian girl in her double-breasted gray suit, rattling off idiom after idiom in her own unknowable tongue - which Constantin said was the most difficult part, because the Russians didn't have the same idioms as our idioms - and I wished with all my heart I could crawl into her and spend the rest of my life barking out one idiom after another. it mightn't make me any happier, but would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles.

It mightn't make me any happier, but it would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles.

It mightn't make me any happier, but it would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles.

If i never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

The feeling one must get up earlier and earlier to get ahead of the day, which by one o'clock is determined.

They had an efficiency, a great beauty, And were extravagant, like torture.