Quotes About Optimization

Life moves in cycles. Sun takes hours twenty-four, rain clouds periodically open their doors, the moon, goes through phases never fills up soon and tides time to time touch the shores. Cycles and seasons #heal you with reasons, embrace them, be aware know mother nature will always care. Let summer, autumn, winter and spring be optimized, heal with every season to get MickeyMized.

So the first step in improving the quality of life consists in engineering daily activities so that one gets the most rewarding experiences from them.

If one does not use the mind to its fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess.

They learned that small programs, like small cars, handled better, were more adaptable, and were easier to maintain than large programs.

management: The systematic pursuit of desired conditions by utilizing human capabilities in a concerted way.

maximum of these minimum values; this value is called the maximin, and it is the very least that A can be sure of getting. In this game, if A plays "Favor X," "Favor Y," and "Dodge Issue," these minimum values would be 10, 45 and

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

Lowering the river of inventory is the heart of lean manufacturing.  Keep this centered in your mind and practice it.  People have a tendency to complicate things.  It is only because they really don't fully understand and appreciate the simplicity and power of reducing inventory.

Lean starts with customer service and ends with customer service.  You answer the following question, "How can I please my customers by delivering to them exactly what they want, exactly when they want it, in the right quantity and in the right quality at the lowest possible cost?

Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.

Besides fixed assets, an industrial company needs to manage working capital efficiently.

The word satisfice is a combination of the words satisfy and suffice. It's a term that Herbert Simon coined in the 1950s, and it represents what we should shoot for rather than something that is guaranteed to optimize and maximize our happiness.

a website without SEO is like a car with no gas

Readily identifies more efficient ways of doing business

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated

We do energy assessments not energy audits. An energy audit is where you tell someone they are doing something wrong. An Assessment is where we help someone to do something right

80/20 says 80 percent of your results come from 20 percent of your efforts, and 20 percent of your results come from the other 80 percent.

80/20 applies to almost everything in business that you can count. â–· Almost every frustration you have in sales has something to do with ignoring 80/20.

80 percent of the 80 percent of traffic is on 20 percent of the 20 percent of roads.

Moreover, data science (and business in general) is not so worried about statistical significance, but more concerned with optimizing overall effort and results.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.