Quotes About Optimization

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

Entrepreneurs, by definition, shift resources from areas of low productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield. Of

An Economic Model for Lean W

how do you identify wasteful transaction costs or coordination activities? I believe that you ask yourself, "If this activity is truly value-adding, would we do more of it?" When

Donald Wheeler and Donald Reinertsen on variability and queuing;

you can't waste resources reinforcing failure Ã¢â'¬Â¦

One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

For the third generation Unreal Engine, we are building two versions of every model in our game. We are building a source model with several million polygons, between 2 and 6 million polygons. We use that model for all the lighting detail on the mesh. Then we go to the in-game version, which is usually about 10,000 polygons.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

I completely believe in the lean startup and minimum viable product; I just I think that people are setting the threshold for minimum viable too low.

80% of results come from 20% of effort/time

Better is the enemy of good.

The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job.

A new president came, talked with the head of sales, design, manufacturing, consumer research, and so forth. Everybody was doing a superb job, and had been doing so for years. Nobody had any problems. Yet somehow or other the company was going down the tube. Why? The answer was simple. Each staff area was sub-optimizing its own work, but not working as a team for the company.

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.

One of the ways I think you make more money is by creating more efficiency.

Being Uber means being efficient.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

As long as I'm efficient, I'm just going to try to be the most efficient player I can be.