Efficiency Quotes

398 quotes by 337 authors

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? — Brian Kernighan
No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service. — John P. Kotter
The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some… — Richard Branson
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase… — Barbara Mikulski
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why… — William O. Douglas
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put… — E. M. Forster
Efficiency and focus are the keys to success. — Robert Crais
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… — Germaine Greer
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his… — Thorstein Veblen
Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency. — Lewis Thompson Preston
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Tony Hoare
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass… — Donald Knuth
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… — James Gleick
In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key, — Georges St-Pierre
With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think… — Jennifer Granholm
What happens is all these things we're seeing â€“ campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago… — Joel Salatin
At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by… — Jacque Fresco
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency… — Henry Charles Carey
It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep below… — Christiana Figueres
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. — Walter Dill Scott

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