#inefficient

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

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Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. ↗

— Henry George

#labor #over #paid #poorly #world

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. ↗

— James Lovelock

#host #inefficient #kills #stays #virus

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

#head #heart #human #human race #i

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient. ↗

— Barney Oliver

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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

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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

#bureaucratic #cruel #failure #futility #game

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#energy #inefficient #lot #nation #through

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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