Top 194 Inefficient Quotes & Sayings

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

Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient.

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

If you're serious about climate targets, you don't build and expand the oil sands and move from coal-fired electricity to inefficient fracked gas.

Co-founders shouldn't excel in the same areas - it's inefficient and will inevitably lead to conflicts down the road.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources of electricity.

I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online.

Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that... it would be as loud as a motorcycle.

When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge. If the young man's in charge or won't let the old man take over, the young man's brute strength becomes destructive and inefficient, and the old man's intelligence, out of frustration, grows cruel and inefficient. Sometimes the old man forgets that he is old and tries to compete with the young man's strength, and then it's a sad sight. Or the young man forgets that he is young and argues with the old man about how to do the work, and that's a sad sight, too.

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

Why would you lock yourself in a situation that may not make you happy? I think that's highly inefficient.

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.

If you're a ball stopper, usually you're inefficient.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.