Quotes About Optimization

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I like to see a video through a computer or through a phone to make sure it looks good at its worst. I hate when you perfect something for the ideal way of consuming things, and then when you see it on YouTube, it looks like crap.

It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game

If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

In a nutshell, calculus wants to make hard problems simpler.

engineering comes down to two real principles: The first is that you think of every problem as a system. And every system can be better. No matter how good or bad it is, you can make anything better—

In their view, hacking would be better served by using the best system possible.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Compounding the cost, most mapping software is processor-intense.

I've been to so many manufacturing plants. I've yet to walk into one where I did not think AI solutions wouldn't help.

I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Anthropos. That's a Greek word. It means to become the best human you can be.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

It is self-evident that the tabula rasa of modernization favors the optimum use of earth-moving equipment inasmuch as a totally flat datum is regarded as the most economic matrix upon which to predicate the rationalization of construction.

Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work

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

Digital Minimalism A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.

In this second part, I introduce a framework I call attention capital theory that argues for creating workflows built around processes specifically designed to help us get the most out of our human brains while minimizing unnecessary miseries. This

Acuity, ScheduleOnce, Calendly, and, of course, x.ai (to name a few examples among many)

For many, the core question of "is this the best way to use technology to support this value?" leads them to carefully optimize services that most people fiddle with mindlessly.