People work better when they know what the goal is and why.It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
The concept of computational efficiency is central to the design of learning algorithms.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.