People Quote by Eric Allman Download Open image “People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.” — Eric Allman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare People
Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority — Irene Fernandez Copy Share Image
People are willing to do whatever it takes to get to where they want to. — Mandira Bedi Copy Share Image
A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without… — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure. — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find… — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy. — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can. — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do… — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who… — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
