#inefficiency

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#been #country #direct #efficiency #efficient

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#freud #gene #had #i #i think

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

#any #applied #automation #business #efficiency