I don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren’t properly alert.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

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.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

He that rises late must trot all day.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

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

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late ’70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that – you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

I love driving my car on any highway.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

Time is money.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.