Efficiency Quotes
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![Robert A. Heinlein](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1192826560i/205._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
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![C.S. Lewis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1564671804i/1069006._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
[From the Preface]”
― The Screwtape Letters
[From the Preface]”
― The Screwtape Letters
![A.J. Darkholme](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1416856052i/9871578._UY200_CR8,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.”
― Rise of the Morningstar
― Rise of the Morningstar
![Peter Joseph](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1377359909i/1818283._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money.
This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.
This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.”
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This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.
This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.”
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![Malcolm Gladwell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1564001739i/1439._UX200_CR0,9,200,200_.jpg)
“A critic looking at these tightly focused, targeted interventions might dismiss them as Band-Aid solutions. But that phrase should not be considered a term of disparagement. The Band-Aid is an inexpensive, convenient, and remarkably versatile solution to an astonishing array of problems. In their history, Band-Aids have probably allowed millions of people to keep working or playing tennis or cooking or walking when they would otherwise have had to stop. The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.”
― The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
― The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
![Bill Watterson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1374016829i/13778._UY200_CR42,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!”
― There's Treasure Everywhere
― There's Treasure Everywhere
“In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.”
― Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
― Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
![Raymond Chandler](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206535318i/1377._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“The main hallway of the Sternwood place was two stories high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian elephants, there was a broad stained-glass panel showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn’t have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair. The knight had pushed the vizor of his helmet back to be sociable, and he was fiddling with the knots on the ropes that tied the lady to the tree and not getting anywhere. I stood there and thought that if I lived in the house, I would sooner or later have to climb up there and help him. He didn’t seem to be really trying.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
![Jacques Ellul](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1355445450i/59700._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.”
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![Will Advise](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1452357562i/14842679._UX200_CR0,61,200,200_.jpg)
“The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.”
― Nothing is here...
― Nothing is here...
![Cameron Conaway](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1635104171i/4656594._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.”
― Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
― Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
![Jack Gantos](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1313673963i/47312._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.”
― Dead End in Norvelt
― Dead End in Norvelt
![Stéphane Audeguy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1283059992i/498427._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.”
― The Theory of Clouds
― The Theory of Clouds
“When things are orderly, it reduces the possibility of waste. When things are orderly, it maximizes efficiency. Eliminating waste and maximizing efficiency both lend themselves to profit.”
― Business for Beginners: Getting Started
― Business for Beginners: Getting Started
“Nature's ability to harness energy and resources teaches us about the importance of efficient systems and processes.”
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“Bronva isn't just about privacy; it's about performance too. Protected by SSL, our search engine delivers instant, superior results. It's a realization that privacy and efficiency can coexist. With Bronva, users can search swiftly, securely, and without compromise.”
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“Якби ми спробували усунути шум в освіті, нам довелося б витратити багато коштів. Оцінювання учнів з боку вчителів зашумлене, але не можна посадити п’ять педагогів оцінювати одну учнівську роботу.”
― Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
― Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
![Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1715275947i/48802898._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Life is a story waiting to be read, each chapter written with the ink of experience.”
― Mastering Time: Strategies for Productivity and Success
― Mastering Time: Strategies for Productivity and Success
“The further basic science moves from meandering exploration toward efficiency, he believes, the less chance it will have of solving humanity's greatest challenges.”
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
![Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1212686605i/45882._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“The change which would be produced by simpler habits on political economy is sufficiently remarkable. The monopolising eater of animal flesh would no longer destroy his constitution by devouring an acre at a meal … The quantity of nutritious vegetable matter consumed in fattening the carcase of an ox, would afford ten times the sustenance, undepraving indeed, and incapable of generating disease, if gathered immediately from the bosom of the earth.”
― A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab
― A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab
“AI's ambition: 'Let's automate tasks.'
ML's efficiency: 'Let's optimize outcomes.'
GenAI's confidence: 'Let's automate success!”
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ML's efficiency: 'Let's optimize outcomes.'
GenAI's confidence: 'Let's automate success!”
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“Organizations that don't take the initiative to design their organizational culture professionally are leaving their goals to chance.
How would one otherwise unify their team's goals with the mission and vision of the organization? Culture can build or break organizations no matter
how small or large.”
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How would one otherwise unify their team's goals with the mission and vision of the organization? Culture can build or break organizations no matter
how small or large.”
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“Elevation into leadership roles must be driven from inside and from the bottom up, especially where a strong culture is professionally designed and implemented.
In organizations where culture is by default & ad-hoc, one doesn't need to care much.”
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In organizations where culture is by default & ad-hoc, one doesn't need to care much.”
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“Are you a ‘Listening Organization?’
Organizations that execute constant feedback loops from customers, vendors, and employees will have a competitive advantage in staying agile and evolving.
Building systems to ensure that your firm is empathetic and open-minded is critical to your survival and growth.”
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Organizations that execute constant feedback loops from customers, vendors, and employees will have a competitive advantage in staying agile and evolving.
Building systems to ensure that your firm is empathetic and open-minded is critical to your survival and growth.”
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“Organizational culture is the most underrated management initiative in all sizes of companies.
The lack of a professionally designed Organizational Culture establishes that promoters of the company lack the basic understanding of regulating human behavior for quantifiable positive outcomes & profits.”
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The lack of a professionally designed Organizational Culture establishes that promoters of the company lack the basic understanding of regulating human behavior for quantifiable positive outcomes & profits.”
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