Tradeoffs Quotes

#1. Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.

John C. Maxwell

#2. Technology usually provides a series of tradeoffs. Each asset is offset by a deficit ... A major problem occurs when those who suffer from technology's defecits and those who benefit are not the same people.

Donald A. Norman

#3. The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

Seth Godin

#4. Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.

Michael Spence

#5. People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.

Bill Gates

#6. She listened for Terrible's voice in her head and didn't hear it.
Of course, she also couldn't feel her extremities. But life was full of tradeoffs, right?

Stacia Kane

#7. Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.

Tina Brown

#8. At its core, all engineering comes down to making tradeoffs between the perfect and the workable.

Katie Hafner

#9. As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.

Steven F. Hayward

#10. Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

Jesse Jackson

#11. This was too much for him to handle. It was like watching memories of his life play out from a different camera angle, sometimes with new scenes added. He was living DVD extras.

Dennis Sharpe

#12. I'm a lifelong bachelor, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't marry the right woman.

Richard Roeper

#13. In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect....

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.

Anita Brookner

#15. My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.

Jorge Posada

#16. I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.

Carmen Ejogo

#17. It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Speaking of scents, if Mr. Cologne-laced Letters really wants to stalk me, he'd be wise to follow me here, maybe offer to buy me a new release. That would get him a lot more action than his current bi-polar approach.

Angela Graham

#19. I have been a Jack Albertson fan forever.

Keith Coogan

#20. She broke his heart. Tar was too good for her, and he simply realized it. She beat her chest convinced that any fragment left behind needed to be removed. A

Lora Ann

#21. I'd like to say it is only average people who revel in the mistakes of others.

Sibel Kekilli