Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient. — Jonathan Scott 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 wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient. — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility. — Charles Handy 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
[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why would you lock yourself in a situation that may not make you happy? I think that's highly inefficient. — Trevor Bauer 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
We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers. — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting… — Jeremy Grantham 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
I've seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it's inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in… — Homer Hickam 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
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
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
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
Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to… — Reid Hoffman 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“He was inefficient in the old sense of the word; not incapable, but unwilling to be seduced by work--unwilling to be singleminded.… — David Rhodes Copy Share Image
We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale. — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“If you are inefficient, you have a right to be afraid of the consequences.” — Murad S. Shah Copy Share Image
Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software. — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
“Markets weed out inefficient practices, but only when no one has sufficient power to manipulate them.” — Ha-Joon Chang 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