Quotes About Efficiency

An e-book can be produced and distributed at near zero marginal cost.

partimmo a un'andatura che avrebbe fatto onore al più veloce degli schiacciasassi mai costruito

Throw the lumber over, man!

I love Amazon 1-Click ordering. Because if it takes two clicks, I don't even want it anymore.

Of course we all try and save time. Cutting corners, little short cuts. But no matter how much time you save, at the end of your life, there's no extra time saved up. You'll be going what do you mean there's no time?

the less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate.

when you build only software that you absolutely need, you don't get more software than you'll actually use.

A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.

Another thing is that we communicate mainly through IM, which is a fairly low-bandwidth way of communicating, so you're not going to disrupt somebody unless you're going to say something that matters. If you meet in person, it's very easy to just talk for 30 minutes, and what was the information exchange actually about?

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

I like taking the subway to work.

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.

I love having Phil [Robertson] in the kitchen! Not only is he a great cook, but it means less work for me!

You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!