Quotes About Efficiency

A good multitasker always sets aside time at the end of the day to review what has happened today, and based on what must happen tomorrow, creates a plan of attack for the next day.

Uncluding is the art of subtracting every element that doesn't pull its weight.

Of all domesticated mammals, pigs possess the greatest potential for swiftly and efficiently changing plants into flesh.

Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use. Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources and not burn or bury them.

In a medium mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients except the meatballs and pour into a labeled 1-gallon freezer bag. Tape this bag to the meatball package and freeze. To serve, thaw the ingredients of both bags. Pour the soup ingredients into a large saucepan. Bring to boil, reduce the heat, and simmer 30 minutes. Add the meatballs and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

If she were neater, she might not have to resort to panic searches when she misplaced important things.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

It's much more efficient to prevent problems than clean them up.

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The great paradox of automation is that the desire to eliminate human labor always generates new tasks for humans.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

It may seem like writing tests slows down development; in fact, testing does not cost, it pays, both during development and over the system's lifecycle.

attempting to maximize utilization is a self-defeating process. Optimal utilization can be achieved only by concentrating on flow.

Budgets and plans have three purposes: (1) Set goals, (2) make forecasts, and (3) allocate resources. It would seem efficient to use a single plan to accomplish all three purposes, but in fact, combining the purposes compromises all of them.

leaders in many companies believe that developers should not talk to customers because this is a waste of valuable developer time.

we shouldn't add features until they are needed. Forget just in case; develop just in time.

It would be much better to assign work to established teams than to reconstitute teams around projects.

In a three-year period, we had 78 projects, and 77 of them were delivered on time, on budget, and in scope. Then I surveyed the customers and found out that none of them was happy!

A Standish Group study found that 45 percent of features in a typical system are never used and 19 percent are rarely used.

true productivity has to be measured relative to the outcomes of the overall system, not just the software. Just producing a lot of lines of code or function points is irrelevant; the real question is, How much improvement in customer outcomes has the development team generated?

You measure system capability; you do not prescribe it.