Trade-offs Quotes
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If it requires us sacrificing short-term growth or sacrificing long-term growth to make sure we're adding profitable subscribers, that's a trade-off we'll make. We knowingly made some of those trade-offs in the fourth quarter.
Chase Carey -
Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.
Bill Gates
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When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs...
Nolan Bushnell -
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 -
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 -
Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.
Paul Samuelson