Noam Chomsky - Robert McNamara - Benjamin Disraeli - Will Hutton - Aldous Huxley - Paul Hawken - Anders Breivik - Marian Propp - David Dunham -
It’s a bit difficult to take seriously arguments about efficiency in a society that devotes such enormous resources to waste and destruction. Noam Chomsky, lecture Poetry Centre of New York 1970, ‘Government in the Future’
Lesson#4: Maximize efficiency. Robert S McNamara, The Fog of War, 2003
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. Benjamin Disraeli, speech House of Commons 1st October 1868
The Conservatives’ focus on a narrow, book-keeper’s conception of efficiency neglects all those spillover dynamics in our society. Will Hutton, The State to Come
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
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 market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it’s approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn’t true. Jeremy Grantham
An efficient plan will involve a flame-thrower. Anders Breivik, 2083: A European Declaration of Independence
Laziness is the mother of efficiency. Marian Propp
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. David Dunham