Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no way that the U.S. will ever default on its debt. We are not going to do that. — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
You know, men would much rather run away than talk about stuff, and my default setting has always been, 'If you have… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
'X-Force' #1 sold 5 million copies. By default, the second issue dipped and did 1.3 million copies. But the cover of 'X-Force'… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
“As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters,… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something… — Richard S. Salant Copy Share Image
Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from… — David Foster Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
