Noam Chomsky - Robert McNamara - Benjamin Disraeli - Will Hutton - Aldous Huxley - Paul Hawken - Anders Breivik - Marian Propp - David Dunham -
108,115. It’s a bit difficult to take seriously arguments about efficiency in a society that devotes such enormous resources to waste and destruction. (Government & Efficiency) Noam Chomsky, lecture Government in the Future, Poetry Center of New York 1970
25,935. Lesson #4: Maximize efficiency. (War & Efficiency) Robert S McNamara, The Fog of War 2003, director Errol Morris, music Philip Glass
42,350. There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. (Economy & Efficiency) Benjamin Disraeli, speech House of Commons 1st October 1868
71,071. The Conservatives’ focus on a narrow, book-keeper’s conception of efficiency neglects all those spillover dynamics in our society. (Efficient & Conservative) Will Hutton, The State to Come
71,072. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. (Efficient & Technology) Aldous Huxley
71,073. We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. Paul Hawken
71,074. The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it’s approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn’t true. (Efficient & Market) Jeremy Grantham
71,075. An efficient plan will involve a flame-thrower. Anders Breivik, 2083: A European Declaration of Independence
79,022. Laziness is the mother of efficiency. (Laziness & Efficiency) Marian Propp
79,023. Efficiency is intelligent laziness. (Laziness & Efficiency) David Dunham