Efficient Quotes

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. (Harry S. Truman)
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. View quote
Bill Gates
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. View quote
Aldous Huxley
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. View quote
Donald Knuth
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. View quote
Golda Meir
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. View quote
George Stigler
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. View quote
Northrop Frye
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive. View quote
Colin Greenwood
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 so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. View quote
Dave Winfield
It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is. View quote
Deborah Bull
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas. (Ed Markey)
We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant. View quote
Orville Redenbacher
Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy. View quote
Virgil Goode
With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries...What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways! View quote
Philippe Kahn
By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few. View quote
Nicholas G. Carr
As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices. View quote
Greg Walden
With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable. View quote
Greg Walden
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. View quote
Ezra Pound
The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives. (Robert Owen)
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. View quote
Bernard Baruch
I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. View quote
Alexis Carrel
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. View quote
Gary Becker