Quotes About Efficiency

use as few chips as possible, both as a personal challenge and because he did not want to take advantage of his colleague's largesse. Much of the work was done in the garage of a friend just around the corner, Bill Fernandez, who was still at Homestead High. To lubricate their efforts, they drank large amounts of Cragmont cream soda, riding their bikes to the Sunnyvale

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year," he noted. "There is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least ten years.

At a meeting early in his tenure, Cook was told of a problem with one of Apple's Chinese suppliers. "This is really bad," he said. "Someone should be in China driving this.

En lugares como IBM, que se especializa en mejoras cotidianas realizadas por equipos de ingenieros, esta es la forma preferida de entender cómo se produce realmente la innovación.

never could, and he was able to avoid having too many bozos working

We wanted to get rid of anything other than what was absolutely essential," he said. "To do so required total collaboration between the designers, the product developers, the engineers, and the manufacturing team. We kept going back to the beginning, again and again. Do we need that part? Can we get it to perform the function of the other four parts?

It made me cringe, but dammit, it got things done.

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I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were lacking in our factory - was as sense of teamwork and discipline. If we didn't have the discipline to keep that place spotless, then we weren't going to have the discipline to keep all those machines running.

This would require moving a million tons of earth, and Leonardo calculated the man-hours necessary by doing a detailed time-and-motion study, one of the first in history. He figured out everything from the weight of one shovel-load of dirt (twenty-five pounds) to how many shovel-loads would fill a wheelbarrow (twenty). His answer: it would take approximately 1.3 million man-hours, or 540 men working 100 days, to dig the Arno diversion ditch.

Plus, for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.

order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

desktop. The screen could have many documents and folders on it, and you could use a mouse to point

things, by removing the superfluous." The G4 Cube was almost ostentatious

Jobs had been referring to computers as a bicycle for the mind; the ability of humans to create a bicycle allowed them to move more efficiently than even a condor, and likewise the ability to create computers would multiply the efficiency of their minds.

Los ordenadores de hoy son idiotas brillantes

Los hombres de genio están, en realidad, haciendo lo más importante cuando menos trabajan —le dijo al duque—, puesto que meditan y perfeccionan las ideas que luego realizan con sus manos.

El asunto es que la gente no se vea obligada a recorrer una cadena de mando —indicó uno de los técnicos de Intel, Ted Hoff—. Si uno necesita hablar con un gerente en concreto, va y habla con él.

In pursuing the goal of development, one must start with the producers and move on from there to see whether the products of their labor are being rationally utilized to bring greater independence and well-being to the nation.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom

Thomas J. Watson Sr. of IBM followed the same rule: "I'm no genius," he said. "I'm smart in spots—but I stay around those spots.")

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything