Quotes About Efficiency

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.

Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.

To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement.

The less effort you put in, the more powerful you will be.

It's not daily increase but daily decrease—hack away the unessentials!

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

In 2015, a petabyte of cloud storage will cost $100,000 per year, down 90% from $1 million in 2011.

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it's a waste of time.

People who waste time naming never have time for living.

in the bowels of this nameless little world, is a genetic technology that feeds itself, maintains itself, runs itself, efficiently, endlessly, mindlessly. It's the perfect organic tool. The faction that could use these tireless workers could make itself an industrial titan.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale, there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands are wanted here, and then again hands are wanted there. There is no staying in any one place; for at one and the same time everything has to be done everywhere.

You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end—only at the end it becomes more obvious. Use your time while you have it, Willie, in making something of yourself.

Whenever I hear that the government must not get involved in helping people, that this must be left to "private enterprise," I think of the G.I. Bill and its marvelous nonbureaucratic efficiency. There are certain necessities—housing, medical care, education—about which private enterprise gives not a hoot (supplying these to the poor is not profitable, and private enterprise won't act without profit).

And so it went, in industry after industry—shrewd, efficient businessmen building empires, choking out competition, maintaining high prices, keeping wages low, using government subsidies. These industries were the first beneficiaries of the "welfare state.

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.