Evgeny Morozov Quotes

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Being Uber means being efficient.

Technology has made it a lot easier to be productive. It's incredibly helpful to be able to get little bits of information quickly.

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

I'm still an engineer at heart. So if I can automate conversations that I find myself keep having to have, it seems like a good opportunity for me.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

Work hard, play hard.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.