Quotes About Optimization

Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

Be always prepared to open up our minds in a way that allows for a solution and not only a solution but the best solution.

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Engineering...to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

as this little function isn't needed elsewhere, it was written inline as a lambda.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

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.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

I've found that refactoring helps me write fast software. It slows the software in the short term while I'm refactoring, but it makes the software easier to tune during optimization. I end up well ahead.

attempting to maximize utilization is a self-defeating process. Optimal utilization can be achieved only by concentrating on flow.

One initial proposal I wanted to put to them was to swap things over. For instance, have five fun days and two not-fun days. That way – call me a mathematical genius – they would have more fun.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest.

To think like a computer programmer, it helps to be lazy.)

Focus on strained external relationships, and begin to repair them. Cut out redundant meetings, shorten excessively long ones, or improve problems with physical work spaces.

Tests that take too long to run end up not being run.

Although there have been documented reports of SARS-CoV escaping from laboratories,68 the fact that the COVID-19 coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was optimized for binding to human cells in a novel way suggests that the new pandemic we now face is a product of natural selection.

See whether the DBA laughs at the queries If it doesn't pass the laugh test, it shouldn't go into production. Period.

What About Object Pooling? In early versions of Java (around the 1.2 time frame), the idea that long-lived objects were good gained currency. I specifically remember being told that "creating an object is the second most expensive thing you can do in Java" (the first being creation of a new thread). The answer, supposedly, was to avoid creating objects whenever possible. Instead, you were supposed to keep objects around and reuse them.

If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.

Flowers and fruits don't grow under terms and conditions set by farmers. So why every other relationship should be imposed by the same. In business it may be fine for structuring and calibrated growth but not otherwise. Let relationships blossom in freedom and liberty, let bonding be optimized, flower in freedom and get MickeyMized.