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“It is clear that these are alternative methods of co-ordinating production. Yet, having regard to the fact that, if production is regulated by price movements, production could be carried on without any organization at all might we ask, why is there any organization?”

Ifs Facts Might Asks Clear Movement Organization Regard Method Productions Alternatives

Author:Ronald Coase

“If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be also so quantified, then some computational method may be evolved for choosing the best schedule of actions among alternatives. Such use of mathematical models is termed mathematical programming.”

Ifs May Use Action Models Method Structure Objectives Alternatives Mathematical Programming Schedules Exhibits Mathematical Models

Book:Linear Programming and Extensions

Source: Linear Programming and Extensions

“I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures.”

Believe I Believe Healing Half Method Alternatives Temporary Half Measures

Author:Andrew Saul

“Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.”

Mind Use Lasts Choices Hell Doubt Eternity Method Suicide Clean Alternatives Hospitals Precise Free Choice Committing Suicide

Book:Letters Home

Source: Letters Home

“When somebody is determined to whup your ass, without regard to any concern for what is fair, you must recognize that the only alternative is to whup his ass by whatever means or methods are available.”

Mean Concern Fairs Regard Method Available Determined Ass Alternatives

Author:Robert Stacy McCain

“Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our arm-chairs of an afternoon-the most favoured alternative method.”

“I venture to give an alternative method of regarding the processes occurring in the electric field, which I have often found useful and which is, from a mathematical point of view, equivalent to Maxwell's Theory.”

Giving Found Process Views Fields Theory Method Point Of View Alternatives Mathematical Electric Venture Maxwell

Book:Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a Sequel to Professor Clerk-Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

Source: Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a Sequel to Professor Clerk-Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

“If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.”

People Ifs Trying Interest Acting Liberty Willing Balance Models Tradition Method Western Contrary Alternatives Extras Western Society

Author:Edward Snowden

“We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.”

World Needs Different Done Difficult Term Company Creative Circumstances Offers Method Alternatives Employee Flexibility Different Worlds Work Done Difficult Circumstances

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.”

Should Has Beens Ends Country Conflict Method Court Alternatives Resolution Disputes Conflict Resolution Mediation Mediators

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.”

Thinking Way Mind Two Animal Alive Method Alternatives Destroying Hunting Foxes

Author:Bill Etherington

“Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.”

Ifs Should Whole Remember Values Easy Keys Degrees Difficulty Method Investment Complexes Endure Investing Factors Alternatives Dependent Investors Shifting Variables Diving Payoff

Author:Warren Buffett