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Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. -- Henry George
All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos. -- Dieter Rams
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. -- James Lovelock
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. -- Corrie Ten Boom
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. -- Thomas Jefferson
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. -- Mitchell Kapor
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work. -- Tony Campolo
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. -- Phyllis Schlafly
We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price. -- James Lovelock
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. -- Charley Reese
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. -- W. Somerset Maugham
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. -- Tom Holt
Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small. -- Kurt Cobain
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. -- Edward de Bono
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient. -- Sam Walton
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. -- Annie Besant
Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency. -- Bernie Sanders
I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient. -- Steven Soderbergh
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
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. -- Bill Gates
Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective. -- Margaret Heffernan
When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks. -- Nathan Wolfe
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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. -- Ruchi Sanghvi
A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. -- Dambisa Moyo
Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient. -- John C. Bogle
Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient. -- Ross Perot
He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient. -- Jill Konrath
Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable. -- Charlie Munger
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry. -- J. A. Konrath
God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways -- Penn Jillette
Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. -- Bill Gates
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. -- Brenda Ueland
Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software. -- John C. Dvorak
The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral. -- Jon Kyl
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone. -- Stephen D. Krashen
While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient. -- Simon Calder
All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer. -- Murray Rothbard
If you are inefficient, you have a right to be afraid of the consequences. -- Murad S. Shah
We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy. -- Chris Van Hollen
Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job. -- James Cook
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. -- Mitchell Kapor
To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. -- Haruki Murakami
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional. -- Jeremy Grantham
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient. -- Bernard M. Oliver
The old think the young are lazy and entitled. The young think the old are incompetent and inefficient. -- Joanie Connell
I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient. -- Deborah Eisenberg
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient. -- Bernard M. Oliver
There is no room for being creative in today's business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient. -- Martin Wolf
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility. -- Charles Handy
What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race? -- Walt Whitman
Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful. -- Ludwig von Mises
You are not inefficient! You have the capacity to produce desired results with a minimum expenditure of energy, time or resources. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed. -- E. F. Schumacher
Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say. -- Colin Wilson
Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient. -- Nick Harkaway
There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient. -- Josh Billings
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. -- Aldo Leopold
Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient. -- Scot Armstrong
I roll out of bed in the morning like a man in a wheelchair. Life is a journey, and walking is so inefficient. -- Jarod Kintz
People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool. -- Justin Rosenstein
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. -- Henry George
Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work. -- Jim Ratcliffe
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go. -- Andrew Evans
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else -- Tom Holt
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development. -- Li Keqiang
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development. -- Li Keqiang
War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived. -- Jacque Fresco
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire. -- Barbara Amiel
Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. -- Alexandra Paul
Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature. -- Douglas Rushkoff
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship -- Jonathan Haidt
Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be repeated frequently to establish the basic motor pathways and basic strength. -- Mark Rippetoe
Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their smokestacks, were not only intrusive, they were also grossly inefficient. -- Bob Frank
Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market. -- Charles Koch
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on. -- Virginia Woolf
Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer! -- Amory Lovins
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. -- Adam Weishaupt
It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together. -- Christy Clark
We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras. -- Jeremy Clarkson
Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund investors do much worse than the funds - or the market. -- Kenneth Fisher
The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government. -- Cal Thomas
No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful. -- Charles Koch
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. -- Elliot Richardson

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