Quotes About Efficiency

you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

Letting them see me without the armor had been a huge mistake. At least Mensah and Arada had overruled the ones who wanted to talk to me about it. Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency.

Klar doch, rede mit Killerbot über seine Gefühle. Die Vorstellung war so schmerzhaft, dass ich auf 97 Prozent Effizienz absackte. Da kletterte ich lieber Feind eins wieder ins Maul!

I finally had to tell her that I had a list of things I needed to get done and it would go much faster if they would all stay in one place and shut up for a while and sleeping was the most efficient use of that time.

Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency.

Good form and technique is a means to an end - for example, your punches will be more powerful if done right - rather than the objective itself.

Martin Fowler NoSQL Distilled: "In general, with remote communication you want to reduce the number of round trips involved in the interaction, so it's useful to be able to put a rich structure of information into a single request or response." Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" "Due to the latency costs of remote calls, it's better to err on the side of sending too much data than have to make multiple calls.

If oy have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

If you can get today's work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can't possibly get tomorrow's work done tomorrow, then you lose.

Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things, often because the code quite literally does the same thing in several places.

I've found that refactoring helps me write fast software. It slows the software in the short term while I'm refactoring, but it makes the software easier to tune during optimization. I end up well ahead.

If you have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.

You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant.

The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food.

time spent sharpening a pencil is never wasted",

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be all day

Life is too short to do anything for one's self that one can pay others to do for one" W Somerset Maugham, British novelist

Even a world leader only has 24 hours in a day!

The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first" Robert J. McKain, inspirational writer

It is the only way of meeting the deadline, they think.

A man is measured by the quantity of what he produces, never the quality of his dreams.

By mistreating the source of all logic we can enforce shortcuts.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.