Quotes About Efficiency

What happens to this kind of business when the data superhighway arrives? . . . No sales force, no inventory costs, no royalties to Nintendo or Sega, no marketing costs, no advertising costs, no executive parking spaces. This is a new and exciting business model, not just for games, and not even just for software, but for a host of products and services that can be sold or delivered via an electronic underground.

He began by pushing himself to stay up one hour later every evening and then coming in one hour later the next day. By early 1995, he had arrived at his ideal schedule: coming in to work at around 4:00 p.m. and leaving at 4:00 a.m. He would need all the concentration he could muster for Quake.

Research is showing that so-called multitasking is a myth. The human brain cannot perform two different tasks at the same time.

the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronising the actions of men

If what you've done is stupid, but it works..then it really isn't all that stupid.

Note that having a large brain is biologically costly: the brain is an expensive organ to run, and large ones consume many precious calories (the human brain accounts for a whopping 20 percent of our energy expenditure).

These amazing and often indispensable systems work so well and so quietly that we tend to be unaware of their existence.

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?

God always takes the simplest way.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

Oh God, you know what would be really good for me is a dog locater - it would save me the hours that I have to spend looking for my dog.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Good design means as little design as possible.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

Good design is good business.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.