Quotes About Efficiency

In return for this money I will give the most efficient service of which I am capable, rendering the fullest possible quantity, and the best possible quality of service in the capacity of salesman of ……………. (describe the service or merchandise you intend to sell).

The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.

that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.

Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker's life while convincing him that it is becoming more "efficient." - The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free. - You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits. - With terminal disease, nature lets you die with abbreviated suffering; medicine lets you suffer with prolonged dying. -

Systems learn by removing parts, via negativa.*4

His idea is that if we were to optimize at every step in life, then it would cost us an infinite amount of time and energy. Accordingly

whenever I hear work ethics I interpret inefficient mediocrity).

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything," he said.

Simply consider that close to 80 or 85 percent of the cost of a tomato can be attributed to transportation, storage, and waste

So, a heuristic: if someone has a long bio, I skip him

others paid by the hour are not there yet.

But top management is only paid on result—no matter the process.

The dentist did better when he dealt with monthly statements rather than more frequent ones.

People who get promoted to important positions usually suffer from tightness of schedules: Everything has an allotted time.

everything is "organized" with optimizing intent

from cramming my day with appointments

via negativa (acting by removing) is more powerful and less error-prone than via positiva (acting by addition

via negativa (acting by removing) is more powerful and less error-prone than via positiva (acting by additionfn1).

Systems learn by removing parts, via negativa.

Black Swan effects are necessarily increasing, as a result of complexity, interdependence between parts, globalization, and the beastly thing called "efficiency" that makes people now sail too close to the wind.

Consider that thinking is time-consuming and generally a great waste of energy

He did not even bother to have a desk, let alone an office.

Technology is at its best when it is invisible.

Less is more and usually more effective.