System Improvement Quotes

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.

How do we make the world work?

Our mission is skill development. There can be no development with a satiated system.

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

My administration is going to fix the system so it works fairly and justly for each and every American.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

You can't exceed the system with language. You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate... You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind. And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur. In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

It's not that the system is broken, but clearly there are ways to improve the system, strengthen it, to make sure that we can put together the various bits and pieces of information in a way that allows us to stop every single terrorist out there.

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

We are improving the entirety of the system. You have got to make the grants available.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

There is no question in my mind that the health care system has to work.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

The best thing we can do to secure the future of the global system, trading system, is to redouble the efforts to improve the system, to reform the system.

How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.

I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.

If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.

Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.