Ada Lovelace Quotes

I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

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 like to be pretty streamlined, to maximize our time on the practice floor. I like to make sure I'm respectful of our players' time.

The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

You have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Don't equate activity with efficiency.

I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

Your greatest resource is your time.

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

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

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.