I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply…

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.

— Christian Rudder

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

— Harold Ramis

Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet…

— Ben Yagoda

The problem is, education in America is sub-optimal because it is an impossible thing to optimize. It necessarily has to be local because different…

— Hank Green

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

— Gerard Debreu

But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you…

— Leslie Bradshaw

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that…

— Peter Watts

It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and…

— Vladimir Putin

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience,…

— Esther Hicks

There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one…

— Erik Wemple

I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a…

— Chris Cleave

Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant…

— Ruchi Sanghvi

Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world…

— Mark Ravenhill