Quotes About Efficiency

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.

A servant's too often a negligent elf; if it's business of consequence, do it yourself!

Thrice happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing! So much time is saved in the billing and cooing -- The ring is now bought, the white favours, and gloves, And all the et cetera which crown people's loves.

We process information so efficiently that we don't dwell on thoughts and words anymore—we flit incoherently from one set of distractions to the next.

It assumes that better means faster. By those standards, a typewriter is nothing but a very bad computer.

The rebellion against the logic of efficiency is also evident in the slow movement, an idea that has been building {slowly, of course} since a protest against the opening of a McDonald's in Rome in 1986 started the slow food movement.

To Save Time is to Lengthen Life," proclaimed the Remington Typewriter Company.

We make things so efficiently that they're all disposable; none of them endure, none can belong to us for long before they end up on the scrap heap.

Maybe to save time is not to lengthen life, after all. Maybe the more efficiently you speed through life, the quicker you reach your death.

Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it.

It's a funny thing about capitalism: money you lose by slowing down is always more important than money you've already made.

What do I do now, for the next forty years? What work can't the efficiency of unified mankind chop into pure fertilizer?

Man-made death became epidemic in the twentieth century because increasingly efficient killing technologies made the extreme exercise of national sovereignty pathological.

Larger mines with direct access to the surface had long been laid with wooden rails to make coal and ore carts easier to move; moving a cart on rails required about one-sixth the effort needed to haul a sled or a cart on a dirt path.38 Moving coal to water on such rails—wagonways, they were called—would save money, time, and wear and tear. The earliest known English wagonway dates from 1604.

Caldwell concluded that welding equipment and materials would cost no more than riveting, while the cost of labor would be reduced substantially.

Engineers today design efficient machines scaled to meet most human needs, from microchips to passenger jets. In earlier eras, animals were bred to such purposes: sheep for mutton and sheep for wool; cattle for meat, cattle for milk, and oxen for hauling; dogs to a thousand purposes

start working- rarely resting- seemingly driven by a fatalistic sense that work that has to be done was best done as quickly as possible.

You can't do all your homework at the end.

The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger's force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and little white envelopes, all seemed to professional, too sleek, too quiet and efficient to be any part of the local law. The local law was three dough-faced farm hands in rumpled blue uniforms, standing around the room looking for traffic to direct.

Napping is often seen as a form of laziness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hundreds of experiments have demonstrated the enormous benefits associated with even the shortest of sleeps, and so it is vital that you make napping part of your daily routine.

High performers pick the shortest path to the right evidence to make decisions that matter.

Goals don't separate high performers; systems do.

By seeing and improving the system, we create leverage.

When the performance system is made clear, decision-making becomes more accurate.