Quotes About Efficiency

The New Republic had traded efficiency for democracy and oligarchy for bureaucracy—and had done so willingly and knowingly.

The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is and complains about our wasteful government.

If we could learn to make things and do things the way nature does, we could achieve factor 10, factor 100, maybe even factor 1,000 savings in resource and energy use.

That's the mark of a good office. The people who do the work get on with it without bothering to tell the boss.

The similarity of architecture in organized, complex systems suggests that they all share universal requirements. They are designed to be "efficient, adaptive, evolvable, and robust.

Every captain knew it was his job to deliver cargo as cheaply and as quickly as possible," one Great Lakes captain commented long after the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, "and if you didn't measure up, the company would replace you with a captain who would measure up.

Human civilization would have to occupy one hundred to one thousand times more space if it were to rely solely on renewables

Keep reports out of production Reports can, and should, be served elsewhere. Don't jeopardize

What About Object Pooling? In early versions of Java (around the 1.2 time frame), the idea that long-lived objects were good gained currency. I specifically remember being told that "creating an object is the second most expensive thing you can do in Java" (the first being creation of a new thread). The answer, supposedly, was to avoid creating objects whenever possible. Instead, you were supposed to keep objects around and reuse them.

Irónicamente, el modo en que hemos organizado el mundo para mejorar la eficiencia, el desarrollo económico y nuestro estilo de vida - los esfuerzos generalmente útiles para transformar el planeta en una aldea global- nos ha hecho más susceptibles que en 1918 a los efectos de las enfermedades infecciosas.

NBA players made roughly the same percentage of shots from 23 feet as they did from 24. But because the three-point line ran between them, the values of those two shots were radically different. Shot attempts from 23 feet had an average value of 0.76 points, while 24-footers were worth 1.09. This, the Warriors concluded, was an opportunity. By moving back a few inches before shooting, a basketball player could improve his rate of return by 43 percent.41

Enframing describes our narrow, restricted understanding of ourselves and all things in existence in terms of 'resources' to be organized, enhanced and exploited efficiently.

Trump usually avoided: he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.

It was amazing how fast things were accomplished in a society run by commercial concerns and not much else.

Your organization is perfectly designed to produce the results it's producing.

Ce n'est pas très difficile de travailler dans un bureau, il suffit d'être un peu méticuleux, de prendre des décisions rapidement, et de s'y tenir. J'avais vite compris qu'il n'est pas forcément nécessaire de prendre /la meilleur décision/, mais qu'il suffit, dans la plupart des cas, de prendre /une décision quelconque/, à condition de la prendre rapidement; enfin, si on travaille dans le secteur public.

If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

Running out of time and being timeless are two different things. Running out of time leads you into a mess and timelessness releases all your stress. Let your time be well prioritized, be ahead of time, become timeless and get MickeyMized.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Maybe I dance to a different drum, but I get the job done well. I need to be accommodated, not managed.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

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