Quotes About Optimization

Better is the enemy of the good.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.

My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions. Because mental energy is a finite quantity.

RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'.

Machine cycle time and manual cycle time are still mixed up all over the world.

To implement the Toyota production system in your own business, there must be a total understanding of waste. Unless all sources of waste are detected and crushed, success will always be just a dream.

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

The Abyss. Globalization had many economic benefits but, as in our own times, the creation of a truly international economic network combined greater efficiency with greater fragility. In 1914 a highly optimized system crashed in what was, without doubt, the biggest financial collapse of all time. (Unlike in 1929 or in 2008, the world's major stock markets were forced to suspend trading for no less than five months.)

Chips optimized for AI can work faster, take up less data center space, and use less power than general-purpose Intel CPUs.

The efficiency of energy conversion is simply the ratio of desirable output to initial input.

Disminuir en un 80% el tiempo que le lleva al equipo clave dirigir la compañía (actividades operativas).

In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, "Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them."19

We all have the capacity to be the best, we just need to use the capacity the best.

focusing your mind and making it work, you are fine-tuning it; you are turning it into an asset.

It's much better to work smarter, not harder.

Always make sure your list is bigger than theirs so you can give up the nickels in exchange for the dimes.

On the sim at home, you can change downforce levels, roll bars, springs, ride heights - you can try all these different things.

What matters is getting the best out of the squad you have.

I think the best way to quickly describe my personality is that I'm a maximizer rather than a satisficer, i.e. I want to squeeze every drop out of an opportunity rather than settle for 'good enough.'

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.