"Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting -……" — Sendhil Mullainathan
"Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem."
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16 Quotes by Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan has 16 quotes on this site.
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The amount of resources we put in are disparate. We put billions of dollars into fuel-efficient technologies. How much are…
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Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But…
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The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.
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It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be…
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A few drugs - such as beta-blockers, statins and glycogen control medications - have proved very effective at managing hypertension,…
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I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry…
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Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a…
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Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do…
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Things that price at $4.99 sell very differently than things that price at $5.
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Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men…
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Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments,…
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Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task…
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More Bandwidth Quotes
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one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.
— Clifford Stoll
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I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and…
— Rocky Anderson
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Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but…
— Richard Dawkins
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If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth…
— Larry Page
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But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch…
— Jon Postel
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The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And…
— Bram Cohen
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Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that…
— Todd Rundgren
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.
— George Gilder
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If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser…
— Matt Mullenweg
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth…
— Dan Farmer
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Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the…
— Niklas Zennstrom
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