Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and…

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant…

— Ruchi Sanghvi

Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their smokestacks, were…

— Bob Frank

In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources,…

— Charles Koch

Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

— Ross Perot

Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many…

— Margaret Heffernan

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a…

— Steven Soderbergh

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could…

— Ben Bernanke

Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the…

— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

— Tony Campolo

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

— Stephen D. Krashen

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

— Thomas Jefferson

Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly…

— Walter Kirn

“There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly…

— Nicholas Carr

“An efficient system depends on institutionalized mechanisms. An inefficient one on individuals.”

— Rahul Shrivastava