Quotes About Optimization

I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Professional management was born from the desire to optimize and control, not to lead waves of change.

In an optimization-based model, preferences or payoffs are fundamental. In a rule-based model, the behavior is fundamental. Behavioral rules can be fixed or adapt.

Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.

Less land, less time, more crop.

An inherent tension exists between brevity and effectiveness. Cut too much and you won't have enough checks to improve care. Leave too much in and the list becomes too long to use. Furthermore

Anyone who understands systems will know immediately that optimizing parts is not a good route to system excellence

When to shift from pushing against limits to making the best of them is not often readily apparent. But it is clear that there are times when the cost of pushing exceeds its value.

An attacking robot follows its program, acting in accordance with focalization and optimization algorithms, differential diagnostics, and game theory—not patriotism. Military mathematics and weapons automation

I'm not suggesting that neural networks are easy. You need to be an expert to make these things work. But that expertise serves you across a broader spectrum of applications. In a sense, all of the effort that previously went into feature design now goes into architecture design and loss function design and optimization scheme design. The manual labor has been raised to a higher level of abstraction.

But how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only 5 percent like a turd?

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

The one envelope at a time approach is called "single-piece flow

Stop production so that production never has to stop.

Como dicen en la teoría de sistemas, lo que optimiza una parte del sistema necesariamente debilita el sistema en su conjunto.)

Even if the amount of time that each process took was exactly the same, the small batch production approach still would be superior, and for even more counterintuitive reasons. For example, imagine that the letters didn't fit in the envelopes. With the large-batch approach, we wouldn't find that out until nearly the end. With small batches, we'd know almost immediately.

It does not matter how fast we can build. It does not matter how fast we can measure. What matters is how fast we can get through the entire loop.

which of our efforts are value-creating and which are wasteful?

The Principles of Scientific Management,

When I work with product managers and designers in companies that use large batches, I often discover that they have to redo their work five or six times for every release.

In effect, the huge productivity increases made possible by modern management and technology have created more productive capacity than firms know what to do with.