Quotes about Efficiency

Optimization hinders evolution.

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

It's like, the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in, and your day is shredded to bits because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there, and something else happens, you're pulled off your work, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch, then you have something else to do.

If I flew commercial, I'd have to stop 65% of what I'm doing.

A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors." "And good administrators?

Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.

The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

Be practical, be skillful, be teachable, and you will be successful.

The sharper the arrow the quicker the hunt.