your first idea is unlikely to be the best, so you should…

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look…

— Emily Oster

It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions…

— Alan Tower Waterman

I think there's a prototype we're all looking for, whether it's Brett Favre or Troy Aikman. And everyone's got that picture in their mind…

— Sean Payton

An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right…

— Guy Kawasaki

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

— Melissa George

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

— Carlton Cuse

The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used…

— Charles Platt

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what…

— Larry Norman

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

— Kathy Valentine

Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without implying that…

— Nomy Arpaly

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills…

— Sara Blakely

A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without…

— Maurice Wilkes

This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but…

— Stanislaw Lem

“the constructor always has a prototype property. More”

— Eric Freeman

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in…

— Henry David Thoreau