“Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even more complex and expensive. Simple economics dictates that companies and venture funds will invest more in products that can generate a sufficient return.” SimpleCompanyProductsReturnCostDrugEconomicsDollarsComplexesBillionsTraditionalSufficientExpensiveFundVenturePharmaceuticalTailored Author:David Mixner
“America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?” MightJobsAmericaMiddleCostComplexesRelatedSanityPanicRecessions Author:Stephen Colbert
“I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.” MenTalkingHeardCostPaidComplexesCuresCopTrafficPsychologistInferiorityInferiority ComplexTalking Back Author:Shelley Berman
“But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.” BodyNextAnimalGenerationsTeachingHigherCostBehaviorComplexesDeterminedDnaFlexibilityAdaptationNext GenerationDependencyAdaptive Book:The Lost World Source: The Lost World