Trade Offs Quotes - Page 2

• One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Nsa, People

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Loss, Trade, Eternal Vigilance

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• All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate but which can make the difference between meeting a deadline and going into research mode for a year, etc.

  Erik Naggum

  Years, Taught Us, Differences

  "Is CLOS reall OO?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. May 5, 1998.

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• I don't enjoy the diminishing agility of the body!I had knee surgery and I no longer can go do three yoga classes and run. It's not as much fun, physically. But emotionally, it's way more fun. I am so much happier and contented and less agitated - I'm just calmer. So it's like everything in this human existence, it's a trade off - it's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit. That's a good line. I have to remember that!

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Running, Fun, Yoga

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Memorable, Comfort, Duration

  Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Sacrifice, Reality

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that most true artists shouldn't have to make.

  Raheem Jarbo

  Artist, Careers, Worry

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• I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

  John Carpenter

  Halloween, Names, Order

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• I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

  Brett Dennen

  Artist, Thinking, Cameras

  Interview with Author Griffin, infinityhall.wordpress.com. February 23, 2014.

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• Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Preparation, Ingredients

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It’s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Letting Go, Recovery, Thinking

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• How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Differences, Risk

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• On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

  Cynthia Weil

  Song, Real, Writing

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 22, 2002.

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• That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

  Mary McDonnell

  Motivational, Thinking, Leader

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• Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

  Paul Dourish

  Years, Fifty, Computer

  Paul Dourish (2004). “Where the Action is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction”, p.1, MIT Press

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• Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Doe, Machines

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• When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

  Joshua Bloch

  Community, Language, Trade

  "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming". Book by Peter Seibel, 2009.

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• I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution that has utterly outgrown its roots which were noble... the real difference was the introduction of the euro.

  Ruth Davidson

  Real, Roots, Differences

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It definitely is something that can get frustrating, because you want to live life on your own terms, and it feels for a while like you can't. But I've come to understand that I got to have all these amazing experiences that other people don't have. So this is the trade-off.

  Mara Wilson

  Live Life, People, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Country, Years, Economic

  Peter Blair Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

  Steven Pinker

  Acceptance, Long, People

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• The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

  Randy Alcorn

  Black And White, Army, Fog

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• I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.

  Philip K. Dick

  Differences, Fiction, Stories

  Philip K. Dick (1991). “The collected stories: The minority report”

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• I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Thinking, Numbness

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• I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

  John Poindexter

  Believe, Technology, Thinking

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