Quotes About Efficiency

The more varigated and complicated a society, the greater the chance that those at the top will be ignorant of the realities at the bottom. Efficiency should not be adduced to justify gross inequality.

Governments, in short, now increasingly farm out their responsibilities to private firms

And few can deny that welfarism, taken to extremes, carries a whiff of do as you're told!: there were moments in postwar Scandinavia when the enthusiasm for eugenics and social efficiency suggested not just a certain insensitivity to recent history but also to the natural human desire for autonomy and independence.

Squares were good. Efficient. He approved of squares.

As Stephen Katz, former CISO of Citibank, once said, "Controls don't slow the business down; like brakes on a car, controls allow you to go faster.

When it comes to automation, IT process consultants usually warn organization not to automate a new process before you have had practice running it with pencil and paper.

The right use of kaizen in Operational Excellence is using kaizen to eliminate the need for management in the flow of product to the customer.

Systems are the essential building blocks of every successful business. —Ron Carroll, entrepreneur

Simple machines can be efficient, but complex adaptive machinery cannot be.

These startups try to exploit inefficiencies in novel ways.

Even a very tiny amount of useful intelligence embedded into an existing process boosts its effectiveness to a whole other level.

Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products.

We'll use technology to produce commodities, and we'll make

Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products. This

We want our self-driving car to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

It's possible that a not-so-smart person who can communicate well can do much better than a super-smart person who can't communicate well.That is good news because it is much easier to improve your communication skills than your intelligence.

Maybe that's why we did things so fast," said Jerrier Haddad, a managing engineer on the 701. "We didn't have schedules to slow us down.

It takes you 500,000 microseconds just to click a mouse. But if you're a Wall Street algorithm and you're five microseconds behind, you're a loser.

Daylight Savings" Like the money the light doesn't go as far these days

If your code needs comments, consider refactoring it so it doesn't.

Fixing bugs is not making progress. You aren't paid to debug. Debugging is waste.

As a professional programmer, you should know that trying to be focused and "productive" 60 hours a week is not a sensible thing to do.

I was quick to learn the tricks of the trade, the most important being: when you run into an unsolvable problem, use grease liberally; it opens all doors.