Quotes About Efficiency

Shred all that, then take the pieces to the incinerator at the end of the hall for burning. I like to be thorough.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale—why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of a lobster?

I Try to design things that someone like myself would like to use which is that it just works, and you don't have to think about it at all

all goes well, he will be done with the job before the day ends, and then be on his way.

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it's probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it's like to be that lobster in the pot, that's in poetry too.

Everything going well in here?" Steve asked, stepping into the room to check their progress. "Moving like a runaway freight train," Cassie assured him. "Then slow down. There's no need to rush." "Aye, aye, Captain," she teased. He smiled and returned to the kitchen, where he was laying down linoleum with George. "Steve says that at the pace we're

automation, for all its benefits, can take a toll on the performance and talents of those who rely on it.

A labor-saving device doesn't just provide a substitute for some isolated component of a job or other activity. It alters the character of the entire task, including the roles, attitudes, and skills of the people taking part.

Automation turns us from actors into observers. Instead of manipulating the yoke, we watch the screen. That shift may make our lives easier, but it can also inhibit the development of expertise.

Learning requires inefficiency.

The Tao does not accumulate or increase complexity—it reduces, simplifies, and streamlines. It's not about learning more techniques—it's about discarding the harmful elements.

As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the letter had a direction upon it, the intended recipient was obvious, the seal indicated plainly who had written it, and he did not waste his time in writing to fools.

I'll even cut things. Or, I'll guesstimate it, and I'll have my assistant get it hemmed for me because I don't have time.

It should be easier for athletes to be students.

When you have a happy atmosphere, people work better.

I should play more quickly, more attacking.

I don't know how we judge performance when you have 13 pass attempts to the other guy's 40.

Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

I didn't grow up around a lot of souped-up automobiles. I love my Prius.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Out of all of the things I've written, 'Dot' was the quickest from first thoughts to full production.

I'm always running late - it's my downfall.

I expect myself to do my job, and that's taking care of the football and converting third downs.

I hate downtime.