Quotes About Efficiency

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.

Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.