Quotes About Efficiency

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

Well, then again, she herself could be pretty single-minded when the occasion warranted it. But going over accounts and taxes? Quite honestly, she'd rather be tied to a stake by her hair and drowned in pickle juice. (Emily)

The fact that a unit of wealth is created today with much fewer workers compared to 10 or 15 years ago is possible because digital businesses have marginal costs that tend towards zero.

Productivity is the most important determinant of long-term growth and rising living standards so its absence, if maintained throughout the forth industrial revolution, means that we will have less of each.

In the automotive realm, a car is now a computer on wheels, with electronics representing roughly 40% of the cost of a car.

Within a week, I knew the subway systems,

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

We cannot deal with the increasing maldistribution of wealth, the increasing alienation of millions, or the lack of a unified purpose and goal by increasing the efficiency of production, increasing the automation of industry, accelerating our technology, or increasing our reliance on the profit motives of multinational corporations.

he stressed that the main feature of science is economy of thought;

But the effective way of continuing to exist in a changing environment is to better manage correlations with the external world, that is to say, information: to collect, store, transmit, and elaborate information. For this reason DNA exists, together wih immune systems, sense organs, nervous systems, comolex brains, languages, books, the library of Alexandria, computers and Wikipedia: they maximize the efficiency of information management. The management of correlations favoring survival.

People are looking for efficient and convenient ways to simplify their life, save time, and make more money.

Alignment and collaboration need not be fuzzy, ill-defined concepts for "let's just all get along." Effective teamwork is more than good manners and good will, although both help an organization function more effectively. Alignment results from shared goals. Collaboration results from shared measures of success.

I said, why can't the world all convert to using Macs? Everything takes longer and is harder on a PC.

Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character.

Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well.

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

Ahora la forma establecida de fomentar la productividad era por medio de la orientación, no por medio del terror. Premiaba el trabajo de equipo más que

The line "But some of my best friends are [X]," well deserving of the taunts it now gets, has persisted because it is such an efficient way of resolving the dissonance created when a prejudice runs headlong into an exception.

Do you ever notice how many words we waste?

this book is almost inexcusably lengthy. For this I must apologize, with the excuse that I did not have time to make it shorter

It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.

Never send a human to do a computers job

Optimizing Oracle response time is, for the most part, a solved problem.