Quotes About Optimization

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.

Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.

What we need to work on is how to increase productivity. And then everybody will be better off.

Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it.

My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.

The reality is that there are simply not enough skilled humans available to properly plan, manage, integrate, and optimize security devices, strategies, and protocols.

You have got the right strategy, the right geography; you have got the right customers. You need to prioritise them better; we need to grow them better, mind them better. We need to give more value to them, and we need to execute a lot of areas in the organisation where we are not executing.

I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company.

I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.

To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.

If you optimize for money too early, you will be minimizing for learning, almost without exception.

If I'm ordering power bars online, I'll order 480. Everything is times-10 in my life.

We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.

I start with the outcome - increasing efficiency, lowering scrap and cost - and then execute toward that.

Meeting the deadline is not what this is all about. What this is about is looking like you're trying your damnedest to meet the deadline. In this age of "lean and mean," it is positively unsafe for you to run the project with a lean (optimal) staff.

Fisher's fundamental theorem: "The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change." Fisher's example was the giraffe. It is highly adapted to food found up among the tree branches, but so unadaptable to a new situation that it can not even pick up a peanut from the ground at the zoo. The more optimized an organism (organization) is, the more likely that the slack necessary to help it become more effective has been eliminated.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.