“This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.” PeopleStatesAmericaStuffUnitedTalkingUnited StatesCostPagesCongressShipsAsylums Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt.” IfsRealHardBigsResultsMillionsRiskFieldsProductsHard WorkBrokenFineHigherCostPagesDirectAccountsFinancialCreditDebtCardsConsumersFixedPocketsComparisonPrintMore MoneyObscureStimulusMortgageCredit CardPlaying FieldsNational DebtFine PrintChecking Accounts Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.” DesignDevelopmentCostPagesTrainingAddFeaturesTestingManualsReliabilityDocumentationSpecifications Author:Douglas Crockford
“The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?" The principles of a business plan are pretty much the same. But after page one to two, everything is unpredictable, because costs or competition will change and you don't know how things will be received by the market. You have to be able to continually adapt. Companies that fail to adapt will die. Others are brilliant at adapting.” KnowsShouldTwoAbleDiesCompanyPrinciplesKnow HowPlansFailingProductsCostPagesCompetitionCustomersBrilliantAddressesTargetUnpredictableAdaptingBusiness Plan Author:Cameron Johnson
“I can't tell you how many home businesses are almost in bankruptcy court over a Yellow Pages ad only to find out that the Yellow Pages ad isn't where their market will look for them, and it cost more than they thought.” LooksI CanHomeCostPagesCourtYellowAdsBankruptcyMany Homes Author:Dave Ramsey
“I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.” WantWould BeHellCostPagesDefinitionsEditorsManuscripts Author:Dean Koontz
“In fact, somebody keeps putting on my Wikipedia page that I'm either Don Pardo's son or grandson. I had an audition recently where the woman said, "I understand that you're Don Pardo's grandson," and I said, "No, I am not." And you should have seen the look of disappointment on her face. It may have cost me the job. It was that devastating to her that I wasn't related to Don Pardo.” ShouldLooksMaySaidFactsJobsFacesSonCostPagesShould HaveDisappointmentRelatedAuditionsWikipediaGrandson Author:Jimmy Pardo
“To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary "surfing" and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.” AttentionMillionsWorryClearInternetCostPagesImpactInstinctDiscourseSurfingAttention SpanSedentaryWeb Page Author:Andrew Weil
“What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me! But you're far from this. Your fingers turn the strangeness of these pages that somehow connect my life to yours. Your eyes are safe. The story is just another few hundred pages of your mind. For me, it's here. It's now. I have to go through with this, considering the cost at every turn. Nothing will be the same.” IfsMindStoriesEyeTurnsPleaseCostSafePagesHundredFingersConsideringStrangeness Author:Markus Zusak