Quotations about

Efficiency

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

—Bill Gates

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

—Tom Robbins

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

—Harry S. Truman

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

—Charles Kuralt

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

—Peter Drucker

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

—Unknown

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

—Eric Ambler

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

—Russell Baker