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.
Bill GatesPeople who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas SowellThere can be economy only where there is efficiency.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich NietzscheIf 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.
Noam ChomskyTime abides long enough for those who make use of it.
Leonardo da VinciI’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
Jeff BezosWorking with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.
Mark ZuckerbergI don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.
David ByrneThe simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
J. K. RowlingLiterally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.
The WeekndI like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.
Karl LagerfeldFuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.
Robert KiyosakiWork is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand RussellThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous HuxleyAll things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
PlatoHumans 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.
Jeff BezosI’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.
Harper LeeThere’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.
David ByrneThere is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin DisraeliOutsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.
Stephen CoveyOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert HubbardI’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
David ByrneI do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.
Mark ZuckerbergGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham LincolnManagement is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen CoveyToday, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Bill GatesIt is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.
Alexander Graham BellIn the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou HoltzAnd I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
Jimmy BuffettI really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.
Elon MuskWho bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody AllenCycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
David ByrneEvolution 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.
Kurt VonnegutOne always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLet all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Benjamin FranklinIt has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry FordJust 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 GatesYou have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
Bill GatesThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph AddisonThe only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYou and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Margaret ThatcherPeople seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob DylanIf we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
Elon MuskThe less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce LeeI wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.
Elon MuskTime is money.
Benjamin FranklinIt’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Elbert HubbardThe least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas SowellI’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.
David ByrneIt’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia WoolfI always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.
Richard BransonI’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.
Brian EnoThe eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin FranklinDid 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!
Joyce MeyerDelay is preferable to error.
Thomas JeffersonIt’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack ObamaDo I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.
David ByrneTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley