Efficiency famous quotes
04-14-2025
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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
-- Albert Ellis -
Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.
-- Amish Tripathi -
XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
-- Barney Frank -
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
-- Bill Vaughan -
So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.
-- Bill Vaughan -
It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.
-- Bob Gill -
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
-- Brian Kernighan -
If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.
-- Bruce Lee -
Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.
-- Clayton Christensen -
Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself!
-- Colin Baker -
We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places.
-- Dan Quayle -
Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.
-- David M. Shoup -
Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.
-- David Seabury -
If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.
-- Dennis Holme Robertson -
The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.
-- Elihu Root -
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
-- Eugene Wigner -
That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one's happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.
-- George Matthew Adams -
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.
-- Germaine Greer -
The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency
-- Gifford Pinchot -
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
-- Helio Gracie -
The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
-- Henry A. Wallace -
Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman -
Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....
-- James Gleick -
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.
-- John Cleese -
If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?
-- Joseph Stiglitz -
... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.
-- Kelly Miller -
If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.
-- Kelly Miller -
They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.
-- Lester R. Brown -
Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.
-- Marie Lu -
There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency.
-- Michael Dell -
The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.
-- Patricia C. Wrede -
Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.
-- Paul Ormerod -
I think you’re going to see tech bringing efficiencies to businesses that aren’t pure tech.
-- Pete Cashmore -
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
-- Peter Drucker -
Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.
-- Reginald Fessenden -
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
-- Ric Ocasek -
I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.
-- Rick Steves -
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
-- Robert Fulghum -
When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.
-- Robert Genn -
The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.
-- Russell L. Ackoff -
I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.
-- Ryan Seacrest -
I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
-- Samuel Goldwyn -
Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.
-- Samuel J. Palmisano -
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
-- Stephen Covey -
Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
-- Stephen Covey -
We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.
-- Steve Miller -
The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men to do their best.
-- Sumner Slichter -
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.
-- T. S. Eliot -
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
-- Theresa May -
It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.
-- Wallace D. Wattles -
The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
-- William Ames -
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
-- William Lyon Mackenzie -
Some actors come to casting and ask me, "Didn't you see my previous roles?" We do not work with actors like this. Their previous roles do not matter; I need the actual work with an actor in this particular character that has been written in our script. What matters is flexibility, believability and efficiency of an actor.
-- Andrey Zvyagintsev -
You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.
-- Mitch Joel -
Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge.
-- Ramesh Srinivasan -
Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.
-- Rick Alverson -
Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users, systems should never be. Allocating corporate overhead to the operating units is simply a mistake.
-- Geoffrey Moore
