Roughgarden Social Selection Quotes & Sayings

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability. — Robin Trower

Agile is not prescriptive and which techniques are appropriate will depend on the context. — Pearl Zhu

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977] — John Osborne

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel. — Steve Kazee

What about feedback you've received about your leadership style over the years? Years ago, an executive editor of mine said, "You should count the number of times you praise somebody and then double that." Even the toughest, steeliest writer or editor often really wants to be told, "Hey, that was a great piece." Early in my career as a manager, it probably took me a while to realize that everybody wants that. It's just a human need. — Anonymous

We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important. — Richard Di Natale

Anger is a big part of that formula, for passion is anger and love combined. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea. — Norman Ralph Augustine

Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden. — Jimmy Carter

Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every previous form of society was an organization of labor in the interests of a minority, which organized its State apparatus for the oppression of the overwhelming majority of the workers, we are making the first attempt in world history to organize labor in the interests of the laboring majority itself. — Leon Trotsky

We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today — Kelly McGonigal

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. — Michael Ondaatje

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never. — Liz Murray

Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart. — Joseph Addison