Quotes About Optimization

An Ad-Hoc Inquiry Concerning the Optimization of the Infrastructure of Primary Educational Institutions at the Interface Between Administration and Instruction, with Special Attention to Group Dynamics Desiderata.

AI might similarly help groom the best detectives, bankers, and soldiers in history.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximumutilization of the ability that you have.

With a little leadership, you'd get it in here very quickly, and it could be put to use on the inner cities and lots of other things, and it would be beautiful.

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one.

Most Business Processes Are 90% Waste and 10% Value-Added Work

No matter how many improvements have been made, every process is still full of waste and rife with opportunity to improve.

why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve

When you see a good move, look for a better one

Rule of Optimization: Prototype before polishing. Get it working before you optimize it.

Markets are, in many settings, self-organizing and 'efficient' in terms of maximizing the welfare of both buyers and sellers.

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

I don't think I can be perfect, but I think I can be close to perfect if I continue to prepare and continue to do everything in my power to be the best version of myself.

I think there are several departments we could completely get rid of, and we wouldn't miss it.

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

I feel many times we do all the hard work, but in the absence of smart work, we do not get the desired results.

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

If technology can remove some of the labour-intensive tasks where the computer can do better than the human eye; that helps.

An optimised tax structure gives us the possibility of flexibility in using our assets that have already been taxed in one market. They can be used in new markets for further business development without the additional burden of double taxation.

Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you.

After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.