Quotes About Efficiency

You can be stuck for two weeks on a problem, and then you get the right couple of people in a room, and in five minutes, you get a great answer.

We said we could do a full episode - find the car, build it, complete it and shoot it - in two weeks.

When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.

When you have two-thirds of possession in any match you have got to turn that pressure into points.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

I am definitely a keep-it-clean type of person when it comes to e-mail. My 'important' folder on the Gmail app is constantly clean. When a new e-mail comes in to my important folder, I immediately look at it and determine what action item comes with it. The action item may not get done until later, but at least I know it's coming.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It's an incredibly tedious process.

Prior to 1980, people used to dictate to a secretary for preparing written documents and that person would then punch keys on a typewriter. I was inspired to invent a medium for doing this work by engaging just one person.

I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.

If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using AI either now or in the near future.

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

The best class I ever took in high school was typing.