Maximizing Resources Quotes & Sayings

Nearly everywhere I've been, popular wisdom has it that the location of humanity's original planet is unknown, mysterious. In fact it isn't, as anyone who troubles to read on the subject will discover, but it is very, very, very far away from nearly anywhere, and not a tremendously interesting place. Or at the very least, not nearly as interesting as the enchanting idea that your people are not newcomers to their homes but in fact only recolonized the place they had belonged from the beginning of time. One meets this claim anywhere one finds a remotely human-habitable planet. — Ann Leckie

It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured. — Nicky Oppenheimer

Human individuals and human organizations typically have preferences over resources that are not well represented by an "unbounded aggregative utility function". A human will typically not wager all her capital for a fifty-fifty chance of doubling it. A state will typically not risk losing all its territory for a ten percent chance of a tenfold expansion. [T]he same need not hold for AIs. An AI might therefore be more likely to pursue a risky course of action that has some chance of giving it control of the world. — Nick Bostrom

I don't care how impossible it seems. — David Byrne

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Someone had to insert a note of peevishness into this hellishly halcyon Keep Calm and Carry On. Generating some reputable resentment, giving voice to the free-floating outrage that imbued their environs like smoke from a burnt dinner - it was a job to do, as Avery's tireless goodwill was a job. With corresponding self-sacrifice, he'd taken on the less glamorous task of reminding the rest that this sucked, it all sucked, it wasn't fair! — Lionel Shriver

There is a reason why I am a writer ... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you! — Phil Wohl

How! leap into the pit our life to save?
To save our life leap all into the grave. — William Cowper

How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions? — Paul Washer

He felt gladness roar through his soul. — Stephen King

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her. — Rainbow Rowell