Quotes About Efficiency

It's fairly common knowledge that a startup can't execute on two products simultaneously.

Before, companies and startups had to lay up all this capital for data centers and servers, and take your scarce resource, which in most companies is engineers, and have them work on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of infrastructure. What the cloud has done is completely flipped that model on its head so that you only pay for what you consume.

With fresh eyes, an aggressive approach, and collaboration, we can modernize state government the way it should be.

We need state government to work efficiently and keep open lines of communication with local governments. We should listen to local leaders about their opportunities and challenges and let their innovation guide the way.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Efficiency is key to a successful kitchen. Clean your station as you go. Make yourself aerodynamic. Buy the best. Taste ingredients as you go.

If you go to Japan, even at the pokiest little station, every single train is arrives and leaves on time - not to a couple of minutes, within 30 seconds. In Canada, they have constant problems with massive avalanches and bear attacks on the line, but all these problems are solved immediately.

Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.

Inch for inch, the 6-foot-3 Westbrook is the NBA's most sensationally talented player, a relentlessly explosive basket-attacker with a deadly pull-up jumper - a top-10 NBA player by any big-picture statistical measure from Player Efficiency Rating to Win Shares.

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Unless it's really an emergency, I'm not going to bother you. And you can see people chafe at that. 'You're in the same office and instant-message each other? Why don't you just walk over?' That's the perfect example of how ingrained the status quo is. To certain people, it may seem lazy, but I would argue it's much more efficient and considerate.

I make time to exercise. It's not being indulgent. I think it's got a lot to do with your ability to manage properly and stay focused. There's no doubt about that.

Staying out of the penalty box will really help.

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Staying low, not dipping the basketball, being efficient on my jabs and movements - paying attention to these things helped me grow and made me the player I wanted to be.

Without productivity gains, any growth in GDP is exactly offset by population growth, and the average income stays the same.

Our philosophy here, guys, is we're going to work as long as we have to to get the work done. I'm not one that wants the coaches to compete to see who can get in the earliest, who stays the latest, who passes themselves on the way into work in the morning.

I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

I don't want to get on base and just run for the sake of running. What good is it if you steal 100 bases and get caught 60 times?

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

Offensively, I have a high basketball IQ, I look to get everyone involved, set screens, take charges, get steals; all of the little things.

When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.