“The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.” PeopleHumansUseRunningPurposeDecisionDependsComputerUltimateDareIntuitionProgrammingReservesEfficiencyAutonomyEmployersAdaptabilityAvailabilityScrutinize Author:Lewis Mumford
“The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men to do their best.” MenHas BeensDependsManagementWorkersWillingnessEfficiency Author:Sumner Slichter
“The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.” WinningEffectsDependsArgumentComplicatedSophisticatedEfficiencyFree MarketDemonstrationHave ConfidenceMarket Efficiency Author:Milton Friedman
“It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is hacked out on the computer; that's a matter of efficiency. I write longer pieces of prose on a typewriter because the act of retyping it for the computer is a useful tactic for revision. Poems tend to be written longhand.” IfsWritingMatterPiecesWrittenDependsInvolvedComputerNewspapersMagazinesProseEfficiencyTacticsDeadlineTypewritersRevisionHacked Author:Kevin Keck
“The efficiency of a President at the beginning of his term depends on their capacity to get everything under control. That was my case. But once the institutions have been put in place, and the responsibilities delegated, the leader becomes a reference, a referee, a symbol and unifying figure for the nation. The issue is how and when to recognize the moment when staying in power becomes counterproductive.” Has BeensMomentsNationsPresidentTermResponsibilityLeaderCasesIssuesFiguresDependsCapacityInstitutionsSymbolsStayingEfficiencyRefereeUnifyingCounterproductive Author:Paul Kagame
“Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.” FirstsHumansDoeMadeRealUseProblemLyingValuesAbilityForgetVisionMillionsEventsMaterialsDependsFirst TimeEntertainmentCommunicateAvailableObligationInstructionWorthwhileDevotedEfficiencyHuman HistoryAbility To Communicate Author:Herbert Hoover