Efficient Quotes

505 quotes by 449 authors

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to… — Bill Vaughan
I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that… — Allen West
I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there… — Joss Whedon
We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe… — Fred Wilson
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look… — Dave Winfield
If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to… — Evgeny Morozov
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks.… — Douglas Rushkoff
What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just… — Sherry Turkle
It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal… — Thomas Moore
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of… — Aldous Huxley
As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty… — Tom Robbins
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments â€“ and to organized religions as well. That is why governments… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide… — W. Somerset Maugham
Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant. — Tom Holt
The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is. — Mahatma Gandhi
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,… — Robert A. Heinlein
Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction. — Gregory Maguire
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents… — Upton Sinclair

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