Quotes About Efficiency

The key is simply to uncover value in waste.

durent se faire expliquer la situation en un langage qu'ils pouvaient comprendre. Il était possible, bien sûr, de simplement leur donner des ordres sans rien expliquer, mais Shirvan régnait depuis longtemps et savait que la plupart des gens sont plus efficaces quand ils saisissent eux-mêmes de quoi il s'agit. Il

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

He actually knows what has to be done and how to do it, and he's going right ahead and doing it, without holding a dozen conferences and round-table discussions and giving everybody a fair and equal chance to foul things up for him. You know as well as I do that that's undemocratic.

An animal's ability to absorb oxygen is roughly proportional to the surface area of its lungs. Typical human lungs pack in a surface bigger than a tennis court. As an added complication, the labyrinth of windpipes must merge efficiently with the arteries and veins.

Typical human lungs pack in a surface bigger than a tennis court.

The telegraphic style banishes all the forms of politeness

En el juego de la supervivencia algunos vehículos juegan mejor, maniobran mejor, y se propagan mejor que otros.

logarithmic tables as cheap as potatoes"—

Sometimes in our job you feel you just can't win. If you take too long you're no good, if you're too quick the visit wasn't necessary.

In contemporary psychological language, efficiency is a primary mode of denial.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a virtue.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue," resumed the whisper.

Stop for a moment... "You don't need more time. You need to use the time you already have differently.

Wonderful organisation certainly, goes like clockwork.

Couldn't they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention?

Longest way round is the shortest way home.

It's been said that only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance; everything else requires leadership.1

The big break from the past may come when speech recognition software is perfected. At that point we'll be able to write simply by talking: Speak into your computer's recorder, and it'll do all the messy work of punctuation and spelling. This could result in the elimination of the keyboard, [Dennis] Baron speculates. 'We'd get back to oral composition--reinventing Homer.

As he sat before the elderly Irishman in his boxcar, the moment of realization suddenly tumbled into Elefante's consciousness with startling efficiency, landing on his insides with a heaviness that felt like a blacksmith's hammer falling on an anvil.

If you're going around in circles, maybe you're cutting corners.

The point wasn't to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise

The only thing that matters in this game is the score, something hackers never quite understand, even when they think they do. If you can't make a shot eighty percent of the time and there's a penalty if you don't, you shouldn't try it. Ever. No matter where you are.

The taxi was a V-6. Good, I'd probably need all of that. I clicked off the radio and AC to funnel extra power.