Quotes About Efficiency

The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second.

In Sydney, it's not sustainable to have 41 council entities.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!

The Federal Reserve and other central banks have adopted broad public policy objectives to guide the development and oversight of the payments system. At the Fed, we have identified efficiency and safety as our most fundamental objectives, as set forth in our Policy on Payment System Risk.

As many have pointed out, it is not clear that we need so many public sector banks. The system could be better off if they are consolidated into fewer but healthier banks.

The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school. And she tries to do it without getting out of her desk chair, which has wheels,

Just do what you do best.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as working on the same thing a the same time with the same strategy.

Als suffen werk is, dan ben ik geen harde werker. Als daarentegen slapen werk is, maak ik overuren.

Good posture is not only about straightening up, but also about how we sustain our body in different positions and movements. It is about well-synchronized body parts that create graceful, flowing movements with minimum effort and maximum efficiency. Good posture allows our body to function optimally at all levels and does wonders to our energy and confidence.

You can't have women working in an office building after two a.m. unless it's a public service, but I have to give my clients all-night service, so there on Sixty-ninth Street I've got four operators for the three switchboards, and they all live right there in the apartment. That way I can have one at the boards from eight till two at night, and another one from two o'clock on. After nine in the morning three are on, one for each board, for the daytime load.

I was sorry I had missed it because talk by those two is always worth hearing. You get good examples of how much a man can say in a few words and also of how little he can say in a lot of words.

My dinner's in an hour, and I don't want to waste time flopping around in a mire of inanities.

I know a chairman of the board of a billion-dollar corporation, one of the 2 per cent, who never gets his shoes shined and shaves three times a week.

Now Semco employees are free to customize their workdays, to come in earlier or later than traditional schedules. The hours they work are determined by their self-interest, not by company dictates. They're the best judges of the amount of time and the proper place necessary to get their job done.

Show me a happy man and I will show you a man who is getting nothing accomplished in this world.