Quotes About Efficiency

I hate foreplay, I want to get straight to the point. My favourite position is on top so I can take control.

The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?

I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can.

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.

If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.