Quotes About Efficiency

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.

Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.

If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.

Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics."-Adam Pazandak

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

You're somebody who has banished all superfluous sentiments from his life. No asinine longings to be home again. No patience for the nonessential. Only time for what's indispensable.

Making an economy more productive (sensibly interpreted) in a sustainable fashion is not best served by obsessively activating people and locking them up in jobs that they hate doing and from which they learn nothing.

cuando más, mejor y más fácil­mente se produce es cuando cada persona realiza un solo trabajo de acuerdo con sus aptitudes, en el momento oportuno y sin ocuparse de nada más que de él.

for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.

Project Management Institute