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When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

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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

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

— James Lovelock

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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