Quotes About Efficiency

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

You cannot build ships in a hurry with a Supplementary Estimate. Admiral Sir J. A. Fisher to Lord Charles Beresford. 27th February 1902.

there is a world of difference between being productive and being fruitful,

Parker always felt things in his bones because, he said, it saved space

Management and efficiency studies in the work place tell us that one hour of uninterrupted time is worth three hours of time that is constantly interrupted.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever.

A mere 20 watts of energy are required to power the 22 billion neurons in a brain that's roughly the size of a grapefruit. To field a conventional computer with comparable cognitive capacity would require gigawatts of electricity and a machine the size of a football field.

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

(Miele) really thought the process through. They did such a great job designing these washers and dryers. I got more thrill out of them than I have out of any piece of high tech in years.

It doesn't matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.

Don't make me think

Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what's left.

Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to a bare minimum.

In reality, though, most of the time we don't choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

Keep it simple, so you'll keep doing it.

When fixing problems, always do the least you can.

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

It doesn't matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice. —KRUG'S SECOND LAW OF USABILITY

Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?"

The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines.

Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, 'How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?' Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.