Quotes About Optimization

What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?

Instead, the emerging story from cognitive neuroscience is that aging can be successful, associated with gains and losses. It is not necessarily a unidirectional process but rather a complex phenomenon characterized by reorganization, optimization and enduring functional plasticity that can enable the maintenance of a productive—and happy—life.

The better performing of your business units are likely to be those operating the furthest below their full potential.

Everything can always be done better than it is being done.

Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.

We abolished every order blank and every form of statistics that did not directly aid in the production of a car. We had been collecting tons of statistics because they were interesting. But statistics will not construct automobiles—so out they went.

The best is the enemy of the good,

Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

We try hard to provide the best user experience possible, and that means the best ads possible, so we work with the brands to come up with the best images.

Some of the uses being implemented for blockchain could actually work better with a database.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.

I think the best way to win in the NBA is to take your talent and figure out how to utilize them the best.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort. When good enough gets the job done, go for it.

Efficiency is a capitalist term that assumes one has the goal of achieving a certain level of productivity.

better idea would be to keep the same number of staff you have now and invest in high upside-leverage "performance enhancement" training, which would result in those same employees becoming as much as 50 to 100 percent more effective.

Within a single test, DRY can often apply.

veo un animal menos fuerte que unos, menos ágil que otros, pero, en conjunto, el más ventajosamente organizado de todos;

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.