Quotes About Efficiency

All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.

Keep things simple.

It is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer.

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate [Plurality must never be posited without necessity]

It is futile to do with more things, that which can be done with less.

Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora [It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer]

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare

Come, we burn daylight, ho!

too light winning Make the prize light.

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

It is not a question of one General being better than another, but of one General being better than two.

high standards of experience, of official routine, and of method, which are the qualifications of the Civil Service.

Nothing was wasted that could contribute to the process of waste. The last dying kick was brought into military utility.

See how efficient it still is, how it keeps itself in shape-- our century's hatred. How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles. How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down.

I was taught by Danny Simon to rely on my own judgment, and I don't like to waste precious time on what can easily become a distraction.

Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Magick" has been defined as the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will. By this definition any willed act is a magical act. We are all magicians. We either perform our magick efficiently or inefficiently.

Unlike any other organism in history, humans have a mind-body conflict: we have a body built for performance, but a brain that's always looking for efficiency.

aun cuando nuestro cerebro representa solo el 2 por ciento de nuestra masa corporal, demanda el 20 por ciento de nuestro consumo de energía, frente al 9 por ciento que gasta el de los chimpancés.