Clayton Christensen Quotes

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They've got to use technology. They've got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.

I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.

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.

If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

Making everything more efficient should make everybody happier.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

One works without thinking how to work.

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

If you take existing ideas and make them affordable and scalable, you substantially change business models.