Quotes About Optimization

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

There are three particularly important issues involved in delivering customer value: focusing on innovation rather than efficiency and optimization, concentrating on execution, and lean thinking.

Innovation delivers products that we can barely imagine. Efficiency and optimization are appropriate drivers for a production project, whereas innovation and creativity should drive an exploration-type project. A production mindset can restrict our vision to what appears doable. An exploration mindset helps us explore what seems impossible.

Large portions of the productivity gains from agile methods come not from doing things better, but from not doing them at all.

Newtonian versus quantum, predictability versus flexibility, optimization versus adaptation, efficiency versus innovation—all these dichotomies reflect a fundamentally different way of making sense about the world and how to manage effectively within it.

Optimization implies that we already know how to do something but that we now need to improve it. Innovation implies that we don't know how to do something, and searching for that knowledge is paramount.

We are machine-centered in our thinking—focused on the optimization of technology and equipment—rather than human-centered—focused on the optimization of human alertness and performance.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.

Programmers can be lazy.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

We need to execute fewer things better.

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.

Figuring out what your players do well and finding a system that will work effectively for them gives you the best chance of winning.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

Make the most of your yard of space and your inch of time.

to tackle the problem of healthcare costs effectively, we'll need a system in which "everyone is practicing at the top of their license.

You cannot do more with less.

An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.