John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.

Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated.

In New York, lights are on the whole night; there are offices where not a single person is working, but all lights are on. The street lights at the White House are lit all the day. Why? And we are being told not to use coal.

Now, there's tremendous waste, fraud and abuse beyond what anyone would understand, and while this is not the reason I do it, the Democrats are going to leave it the way it is.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

I think in some cases, a penny is nothing compared to the kind of numbers. Then you get to fraud, waste and abuse, Sean. I mean, the fraud and the waste and the abuse, which everybody agrees if you can solve that problem, but it's, you know, mind-boggling the kind of numbers.

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.