George Dantzig Quotes
Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to "best" achieve its goals when faced with practical situations of great complexity.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
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Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.
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Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Every morning I hear the alarm, it's like "BEEP BEEP BEEP" For second I'm like, "I could get used to that, just dream I'm in a techno club, or something."
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Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to "best" achieve its goals when faced with practical situations of great complexity.
