# Quote — John Varley, Millennium

> I hate inefficiency. You’d have to look a long long ways before you found a better example of it than the press conference.

- Author: [John Varley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley.md)
- Book: [Millennium](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/millennium.md)
- Page: 150
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Varley#Millennium_(1983)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/millennium/i-hate-inefficiency

## More from this book

> By then I was sure the universe could no longer surprise me, nor interest me. I was wrong. It managed to do both in no more than ten minutes.

p. 205 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/millennium/by-then-i-was.md)

> “You see…when you get right down to it, I don’t believe you have my daughter. I won’t until I see her. And having seen her, I won’t believe I could lose her again.”
>
> Sherman looked at him for a long time.
>
> “The universe is, so far as I know, Doctor Mayer, indifferent to what you believe or disbelieve.”

p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/millennium/you-see-when-you.md)

> I have come to believe, based on long experience dealing with humans, that no true story ever gets told.
>
> I sit here now with two stories, about to add lies, half-truths, or simple misunderstandings of my own, moved by some vague urge toward a completeness of things—a completion that can never be achieved.

p. 243 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/millennium/i-have-come.md)