Quotes About Efficiency

People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.

Why don't we save time and you just tell me what I want?

My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

I've got about three minutes to get ready in the morning before dropping my kids at school and going to the office. But even with limited time, I still want to look natural and pretty.

I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

Pro-Tip: Ask for one clear action per panel. Don't ask your artist to do two, three, or more things in a shot. You want those? Add more panels.

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

You can do anything you want, as long as it works.

Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel, was passionate about seeking to improve meetings. He once wrote, "Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment worth $2,000, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers." A poorly conducted and unnecessary meeting is indeed a form of time theft, a theft that can be prevented.

Halston had a sensible, straightforward philosophy of "find out what's wrong and let's fix it," according to Liza.

Though we couldn't see how to explain these results mathematically, an intuitive explanation suggested itself: The shortcuts were providing high-speed communication channels, enabling mutual influence to spread swiftly throughout the population. Of course, the same effect could have been achieved by connecting every oscillator directly to every other, but at a much greater cost in wiring. The small-world architecture apparently fostered global coordination more efficiently.

Dreams without clearly defined goals, and goals without clearly defined steps, will never be achieved expeditiously or efficiently, and will rarely be achieved at all.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage.

there were no artificial obstacles, things that are insisted upon that make it hard for people to get any work done — things like bureaucracy, security, refusals to share with other people.

The very best companies in the world are best not only because of their creativity, but because of their ability to implement.

From their point of view, it seemed to indicate another hacker sin — inefficiency.

and a tendency to take offense at an inefficient, suboptimal way of doing things.

In their view, hacking would be better served by using the best system possible.

Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did. - Terry Winograd

Indians only needed so many implements and decorations. If a tribe drove three hundred buffalo over a cliff, they wouldn't feel obligated to make twenty-four hundred buffalo-hoof spoons and six hundred buffalo-horn charcoal carriers. Rather, they might just take the meat and hides from the best-looking female buffalo, those that weren't too smashed up or buried under other buffalo. That might be all they touched. After all, their time and energy had value, just as ours does.

Recognize, though, that graphs and equations provide an economical and effective way of expressing things that torture the tongue.