“Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.” UniverseRegardEfficientEfficiencyEffectivenessDefault Author:Tim Ferriss
“In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.” MenWellsCenturyRegardNuclearPhysicsHeatRaysEnginesEfficientCentsTwentieth CenturyConvenientNineteenth CenturyClockworkThermodynamicsNeutronsGamma Rays Book:V. Source: V.
“The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.” CuttingRegardDataAnalysisEfficientUnfortunateThoroughShort Cuts Author:Ronald Fisher
“Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.” WayWantHumansPoliticalDesirePoliticsMoralityCapitalismResourcesRegardEfficientRationalityLaissez FaireLaissez Faire Capitalism Author:Jerry Pournelle
“The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.” MenGovernmentTodayPowerfulLibertyEconomicModernDangerHe ManNeededConcernedEconomicsRegardExpertsMost PowerfulEfficientPublic GoodAdministrators Author:Friedrich August von Hayek