Quotes About Optimization

Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

Part of the process is always, 'Is there a better way?' We try to think through if there's something we can do better creatively or technically, or just is more efficient.

Use technology to make everything run better.

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Dedication and discipline beats brilliance and giftedness every day of the week. And A-Players don't get lucky. They make lucky. Each time you resist a temptation and pursue an optimization you invigorate your heroism. Every instant you do that which you know to be right over the thing that you feel would be easy, you facilitate your entry into the hall of fame of epic achievers.

80 percent of the results you achieve in your life come from only 20 percent of the activities that occupy your time.

Todas las mujeres y todos los hombres heroicos del mundo han sido perfeccionistas. Eran verdaderos optimizadores, enormemente obsesionados porque todo lo que hacían fuera destacable.

observó el señor Riley— tienen menos capacidad innata que aquellos con los que compiten. Pero son su dedicación, su compromiso y su tenacidad para optimizar cualquiera de sus potencialidades lo que los convierten en iconos.

La gran mayoría de nuestro mundo moderno, la que pasa una enorme cantidad de su irremplazable tiempo vital mirando ráfagas de selfis, el desayuno de sus amigos virtuales y videojuegos violentos, tildaría de «locura» esta dedicación a la optimización del conocimiento —

Instead of trying to get people to work harder, make their job easier.

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that self-interest can solve this problem. Given a free economy and an impartial rule of law, self-interest leads towards an optimal distribution of resources. Smith

As with industrial methods, Rockefeller broke down cycling into its component parts then perfected each movement.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

The optimum population,' said Mustapha Mond, 'is modelled on the iceberg-eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.

Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.

we sometimes miss seeing that we can fill a bathtub not only by increasing the inflow rate, but also by decreasing the outflow rate.

great scientists invented technologies to achieve their goals, but never failed to modify existing technologies to suit their needs whenever possible. Why reinvent the wheel when there was so much else that needed to be done?

But evolution never optimized. Once it found a solution good enough to ensure species survival, it was content.

thinned out. I will reduce your numbers from more than eight billion, to five or six million. Five or six million of you who will be modeled after the winning team in every way possible, representing their country, culture, philosophy, level of ruthlessness, and so on.

Algoritmización: Se refiere al proceso de obtener algoritmos a partir de la información cruda . Es un mecanismo de concentración de datos y aumento de la densidad informacional.