You cannot increase the efficiency of photosynthesis. We improve the performance of farms by irrigating them and fertilizing them to provide all these nutrients. But we cannot keep on doubling the yield every two years. Moore's law doesn't apply to plants.
Vaclav Smil
LawPlantsPerformanceEfficiency
My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.
Nandan Nilekani
ChangeHonestyEfficiencyKindRight
It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.
Hans Vestberg
MeEfficiencyLongMatureDifficult
I support adjustments designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of regulation without sacrificing safety and soundness or undermining macroprudential goals.
Jerome Powell
GoalsSupportSafetyEfficiency
We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle.
Matthew Walker
SleepBrainEndEfficiencyYouKnow
Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time, might do just the opposite, reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity.
Amy Cuddy
TimeDaySmallShortEfficiencyUs
The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.
Rosa DeLauro
BuildingEnergyTexasEfficiency
I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.
Lois Capps
EnergyEfficiencyRenewable Energy
I have been outspoken on my opposition to 'Obamacare,' and I don't buy the line that our Medicaid program, or any function of government, has reached maximum efficiency.
Doug Ducey
GovernmentEfficiencyLineOpposition
Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.
Clayton M. Christensen
InnovationEfficiencyInvestmentTake
Wind developers have realised the importance of transparent method of price discovery, which was demonstrated in the solar sector. They realise that bidding brings in efficiency, and tariff is right-sized.
Piyush Goyal
WindEfficiencyDiscoveryPrice
Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency.
Pete Hoekstra
QualityAccountabilityEfficiency
I did a brief visit at Google X, and they have these little push scooters that you can go from one end of the compound to the other, and the floors are very smooth to maximize efficiency of the push scooters.
Thomas Middleditch
EndPushEfficiencyYouGoGoogle
Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.
Richard E. Grant
GreatTimeMeCriticismEfficiency
Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.
Julian Baggini
TogetherPeopleEfficiencyEvolution
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
Henry Charles Carey
FreedomSlaveryEfficiencyCountry
The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.
Eric C. Anderson
GovernmentEfficiencyProfitUs
The increase in coal production and the efficiency in coal movement are all administrative things that can add a lot to the economic growth.
Chanda Kochhar
GrowthEfficiencyMovementProduction
If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.
Alan Mulally
InnovationEfficiencyYearYouYour
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
Jacques Ellul
TechnologyEfficiencyNewBecome
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.
Ben Bernanke
PeopleEfficiencyYouCreateTax
Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food. Large animals have inherently low efficiency of converting feed to muscle, and only modern broilers can be produced with less than two units of feed per unit of meat.
FoodEfficiencyAnimalsMuscleMeat
I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure.
Ma Yansong
ThinkEfficiencyStructureModern
Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.
Frances Beinecke
FutureWaterEfficiencyHelpWill
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