Quotes About Efficiency

The computer is really a useful gadget for consuming time.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

We have a lot of work to do to get really important useful capabilities into people's hands - self-driving cars are going to save an enormous number of lives.

Apple's proven to be really good at taking what we're capable of with technology and making it useful and solve human problems.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

It offends me when people do useless work.

A lot of multinationals have long, drawn-out processes and are pretty useless at putting products on the shelves quickly.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

Mobile forced us to rethink the user experience and do something people would be able to carry out on in a couple of seconds on the mobile phone. By stripping out all the work the user used to do and putting that on the company, we were able to create a much better user experience.

Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me.

The OECD advocates a risk-based approach to water security and is calling on governments to speed up their efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness of water management. We recommend improving water pricing to recover costs and to reflect the value of water to users and society.

What I hope is, over time, users should not have to read a training manual. They should say, 'I totally get the Workday iPad app, because it runs the way my consumer apps run.'

The use of drones to improve public safety, agriculture and other uses will only increase.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Some of the uses being implemented for blockchain could actually work better with a database.

The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.