Optimizing Quotes

#1. Attempts to control complex systems by using the kind of mechanical, reductionist thinking championed by thinkers from Newton to Taylor - breaking everything down into component parts, or optimizing individual elements - tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.

Stanley McChrystal

#2. Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.

Satya Nadella

#3. The point I'm trying to make is that by recording my progress every day, I had the data I needed to start optimizing my daily writing.

Rachel Aaron

#4. You need slack to enable continuous improvement. In order to have slack, you must have an unbalanced value stream with a bottleneck resource. Optimizing for utilization is not desirable.

David J. Anderson

#5. As you merge your heart, mind, and body and give all that you are to optimizing your health, remember to love yourself and to be your own best friend.

Bob Harper

#6. Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses.

Paul Graham

#7. Optimizing Oracle response time is, for the most part, a solved problem.

Cary Millsap

#8. I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware.

Ted Nugent

#9. Increasingly, companies use their power to influence and manipulate their users. Websites that profit from advertising spend a lot of effort making sure you spend as much time on those sites as possible, optimizing their content for maximum addictiveness.

Bruce Schneier

#10. If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

Mark Twain

#11. The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole

Eric S. Raymond

#12. For me, it's about optimizing health. It's about lifestyle and longevity. Then you think about what vegetarian diets can do for the mass population, in terms of lower consumption of resources. When you look at the numbers, it's pretty staggering.

Scott Jurek

#13. Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

Clayton Christensen

#14. If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.

Bill Gurley

#15. We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

Jeff Atwood

#16. Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that can significantly alter the maternal and in utero environment, leading to complications. Optimizing

T. Murphy Goodwin

#17. Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.

Carroll Smith

#18. Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.

J.R. Rim

#19. Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Aaron Levie

#20. Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.

Marc Ostrofsky

#21. 'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.

Glenn Beck

#22. Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

Dr. Seuss

#23. Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#24. But if the Nevernever dies, won't you disappear, as well?"
"I am a cat," Grimalkin replied, as if that explained anything.

Julie Kagawa

#25. I am not a fan of having too much gear.

Roger Deakins