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“The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.”

Knows Community Greater Risk Cost Factors Enterprise Flexibility Developers Velocity

Author:Tim Bray

“Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.”

Made Two Industry Cost Rate Factors Operations Feds Wages Components Automobile Cost Of Living Escalators Automobile Industry

Author:Leonard Woodcock

“Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.”

Action Poor Development Cost Projects Increase Responsible Management Following Factors Software Software Development Mismanagement Poor Management

Author:Barry Boehm

“To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Used Order Space Cost Solutions Increase Safety Access Significant Factors Flight Breakthrough Magnitude Orbit Airborne Space Flight

Author:Burt Rutan

“If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.”

“Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care.”

Ifs Care Cost Dollars Factors Health Care Cheeseburger

Author:Michael Specter

“The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.”

Ifs Long Hard Would Be Three Energy Hours Path Wind Periods Cost Solutions Blow Factors Electric Miraculous Straightforward Storage Long Periods Of Time

Author:Bill Gates

“Let's take energy, for instance. I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere. So, when, at Bain Capital, we started a new steel company called Steel Dynamics in Indiana, the cost of energy was a very important factor to the success of that enterprise.”

Important States Energy United Company United States Industry Cost Majors Factors Instance Enterprise Elsewhere Steel Input Dynamics Indiana

Author:Mitt Romney

“The reality is that the "gayborhoods" are going away. It's because of many factors, including the internet and increased acceptance, but mostly it's the cost of housing.”

Reality Acceptance Internet Cost Including Factors Going Away Housing

Author:Cleve Jones

“If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us...inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did?”

Ifs Needs Giving War Matter Fighting Bears Honor Cost Notion Factors Insult Witch

Book:Northern lights

Source: Northern lights

“If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.”

Ifs War Fighting Cost Factors

Book:Northern lights

Source: Northern lights