Quotes About Optimization

If you were in a piña colada-making contest, these optimizations may make all the difference.

The O() notation puts an upper bound on the value of the thing we're measuring (time, memory, and so on).

But it is certainly true that in the long run that choice is up to us: what we ask our technology to do, what we ask its designers to optimize, what we believe is the good life that we are pursuing together.

The thing you're doing by default is rarely the best possible version of the thing.

optimization under constraints," and many Nobel prizes have been awarded in this area. Using the concept of bounded rationality

I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."

If you're always questioning things, you realize the way you're living is just not as beneficial as it could be.

Even when we've been winning, we still look at things that we could have done better, whether it be on the racetrack, on pit road, just little things to maximize our day.

If the car is capable of finishing eighth, then I want to get the most out of the car and put it eighth. If the car is only capable of finishing 13th to start the year, then that has to be our goal.

Better is the enemy of good.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.

Time and energy are finite. You only have so many hours in a day and so many days of your life. The solution to using your time wisely isn't about exerting more energy - eventually you'll run out of steam. The key to reaching your greatest potential is about working smarter, not harder.

Great things happen when you converge services and devices.

Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more or less satisfactory compromises between conflicting constraints.

Do it fast, simple, and right the first time (and did we mention fast?).

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.