Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On… — Erik Wemple Copy Share Image
That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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.… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you… — Leslie Bradshaw Copy Share Image
But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal… — Robert O. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The aikido term ma ai, which means "space harmony" ("ai" is Chinese for "love," and it translates into Japanese as harmonious connection)… — Stephen Gilligan Copy Share Image
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but… — Richard Berry Copy Share Image
Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you… — Jeff Weiner Copy Share Image
The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
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