“The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.” ArtSpiritualGamesPlayerRiskCostNotionOutcomesImmenseParticipationEntry Author:Susan Sontag
“What I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment. We've put all our efforts into making the actual game. Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people.” PeopleI CanMomentsGamesEffortCostCreatingPaidInvolvement Author:Masahiro Sakurai
“Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.” BookGamesCostCompareOperaTicketsNhl Author:Margaret Atwood
“Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.” GamesWinningCostManagementInvestingActiveWinnerExpensesZeroLoserZero Sum GameActive Management Author:Eugene Fama
“Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at that disgusting game he must prevail at the cost of his self-respect. Not many superior men make the attempt. The average great captain of the rabble, when he is not simply a weeper over irremediable wrongs, is a hypocrite so far gone that he is unconscious of his own hypocrisy.. a slimy fellow, offensive to the nose.” MenSelfGamesStruggleGoneDemocracyCostOfficeFellowsMereAverageSuperiorsNosesHypocrisyUnconsciousSelf RespectDisgustingCaptainsOffensiveHypocriteProletariatSuperior ManFlattererSo Far Gone Author:H. L. Mencken
“I think there's an awful lot of twaddle and bullshit on EVA. The whole game is to turn retained earnings into more earnings. EVA has ideas about cost of capital that make no sense. Of course, if a company generates high returns on capital and can maintain this over time, it will do well. But the mental system as a whole does not work.” IfsThinkingWellsDoeIdeasWholeTurnsCoursesGamesCompanyReturnCostAwfulBullshitEarning Author:Charlie Munger
“Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine.” WorldYearsRealHappensOpportunityGamesModernChangedTheoryReturnCostFindingsEconomicsInvestmentCompareAttractiveReal WorldPortfoliosFreshmanDreamlandOpportunity Cost Author:Charlie Munger
“When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.” WantNeedsWritingArtFeelingsGamesNovelSuccessfulTalentCostDemandPaintPassionatePainterCardsDevelopingBoardsAccomplishedBeing SuccessfulWorks Of ArtEndeavorCanvasSculptureExpertiseSculptorsMotifsBoard Games Author:Klaus Teuber
“You have a job but you don't always have job security, you have your own home but you worry about mortgage rates going up, you can just about manage but you worry about the cost of living and the quality of the local school because there is no other choice for you.rankly, not everybody in Westminster understands what it's like to live like this and some need to be told that it isn't a game.” NeedsHomeSchoolJobsChoicesGamesQualityWorrySecurityCostRateLocalsManageMortgageCost Of LivingWestminsterMortgage Rate Author:Theresa May
“Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.” KnowsWayLongCultureGamesSocialJusticeLevelsPathCostConflictEqualSocial JusticeStakesNonviolenceInvolvement Author:Martin Sheen
“The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.” EndsGovernmentGamesDecisionRolesCostWasteBlameBurdenShouldersRisingHospitalsDominantFundingAustralianBlame Game Author:Kevin Rudd
“The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360 as on high-end PCs that cost six times as much. It's easy to navigate and has lots of useful secondary features - the ability to play digital video, stream MP3s, and so on.” LooksEndsPlayGamesEasyAbilityPowerfulCostSixVideoFeaturesStreamsDigitalConsoleNavigateXboxMp3 Author:James Surowiecki
“The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?” PeopleHelpingGamesInterestingDramaCostTiredOlympicsRollingTireBooing Author:Johnny Weir