Quotes About Efficiency

The increased effort required to retrieve the learning after a little forgetting has the effect of retriggering consolidation, further strengthening memory.

Rereading text and massed practice of a skill or new knowledge are by far the preferred study strategies of learners of all stripes, but they're also among the least productive.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

What's measured improves

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance.

Leave enough time unscheduled; anyone in a decision-making position should, as a rule, schedule no more than half his time.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

The ubiquitous semi-sentient utility routine running in her macrocellular clusters responded immediately by unfolding a basic array of mental icons, slender lines of blue fairy light that superimposed themselves within her wobbly vision. She frowned. If she was reading their efficiency modes correctly, her biononics had

Chain of command was always a nominal concept in the division, you trusted people to do their job right.

He told his e-butler to have the maidbots start a decent meal and open some wine to breathe. By the time he got home it should be ready.

Computers aren't smart, just fast. Garbage in, garbage out.

What is the point of building a large nervous system if your life is over in a year or two? The machinery of intelligence is expensive, both to build and to run.

not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.

For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”