Efficiency Analysis Quotes

Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps.

There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work.

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

It would almost seem that - dare I say this - private transportation is more efficient than mass public-transit!

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is