Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and… — B. J. Fogg Copy Share Image
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born,… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change.… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point.… — John Neff Copy Share Image
There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Can you know you can have institutions that put curbs on that in various ways, and actually what the banks, you know,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
In fact, there is no business; there are only people. Business exists only *among* people and *for* people.Seems simple enough, and it… — James Autry Copy Share Image
Water, water, water…There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on… — Pieter Zeeman Copy Share Image
Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for… — Howe Gelb Copy Share Image
Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Copy Share Image
If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In… — Nicholas Ray Copy Share Image
The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic… — Charles Grodin Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is always a nice, inexpensive draft beer, but if someone wants something a little more complicated than that, then… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
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