Quotes About Efficiency

the amount of work required to prepare the catalog for the printer makes it cost-ineffective unless you print 25,000 copies. It's only a rule of thumb, but it's a good one.

If they opt out, bless them—because you won't have to waste time, money, or hopes on them.

Tests do not, or at least should not collaborate; it's universally accepted that inter-test dependency is an anti-pattern.

Within a single test, DRY can often apply.

Today I will focus on priorities and ignore the unimportant crap

Paperwork is as necessary to modern life as food and shelter. You can't live without it.

We are simplified by technical manipulation

Invisible worlds, or worlds that are supposed to be invisible interest me. I like to see the effort it takes for some people to make things go smoothly for other people. Don't misunderstand me; mostly I'm part of the invisible world myself.

People in Ember rarely threw anything away. They made the best possible use of what they had.

Crystal didn't like delays. She was a fast-moving, efficient person, and when her way was blocked, she became very tense and spoke with her lips in two hard lines.

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time. That

I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. That was the kind of person I wanted to be.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

Work divided is in that manner shortened.

Work as smart as you are able.

I'm a Virgo and I'm really good at scheduling. And I really make it work. I get up 6.30 every day.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.