Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient. — Jonathan Scott Copy Share Image
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional. — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient. — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
There is no room for being creative in today’s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient. — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates,… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
Whether it is through stock-market trading or the sale of hotel rooms, the Internet has a way of bringing deflationary forces to… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe.… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of… — Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The author indicts "our culture's rush toward efficiency, speed, quantification, and distraction" and counters with the value of "the time and attention… — Cherie Harder Copy Share Image
We have the industrial agriculturalists who try and make an argument that big is beautiful. But if you do the math, and… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image