Inefficient Quotes

94 Inefficient quotes by 87 unique authors

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their… — Barbara Amiel
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an… — William Manchester
I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make… — Will Rogers
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is… — Bill Gates
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. — Thomas Jefferson
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. — James Lovelock
We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price. — James Lovelock
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient… — W. Somerset Maugham
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government,… — P.J. O'Rourke
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. — Charley Reese
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. — Phyllis Schlafly
By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal… — Matt Taibbi
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. — Brenda Ueland
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. — Aldo Leopold
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical… — Virginia Woolf
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the… — Judith Martin
He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient. — Cinda Williams Chima
The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be… — Noam Chomsky
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but… — Corrie Ten Boom
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and… — Rick Bragg
What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have… — Haruki Murakami
But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural laws. This mind… — Benjamin Hoff
To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. — Haruki Murakami
As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances,… — Mitch Albom
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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