“About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults, and why they traded it in - but they couldn't list as many close friends.” YearsSimpleCarModelsPaidFaultsListsFaithfulAccuracySimple LivingClose FriendsThrough The Years Author:Doris Janzen Longacre
“Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.” PoliticalDifficultSimpleDecisionIssuesBenefitsModelsAspectRelateUrbanAdoptedTransportDifficult Decisions Author:Enrique Penalosa
“Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.” LongMovingGrowthTermSimpleProgressEconomicStageModelsLogicFunctionIncreaseLong TermTrendsDeclineVariablesContainingHegelEconomic Models Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
“Sometimes you just have to sit down a lot and make sure everyone's cool. If someone has an issue, you make sure they don't keep it inside. That's been the model of the Simple Plan.” IfsSometimesSimpleIssuesPlansModelsSimple Plan Author:Chuck Comeau
“In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.” WorldShouldStatesTermMy OwnSimpleViewsModelsManagementComplexesCurriculum Author:Dan Ariely
“Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsSimpleAnswersMorningAudienceModelsSundayPreachingSimple ThingsDisserviceSunday Morning Author:Andy Stanley
“I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.” WorldWayYearsLittlesLongTwoCharacterBodyPastNamesMy OwnSimpleFeetTruth IsDegreesSixModelsResearchDistanceSoftwareFifteenReignEmperorFifteen YearsSimple Truths Author:Robert Reed
“To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet.” SimplePartyPaySupportHavensSourceReaderModelsThirdsDollarsComplicatedEnterprisePrintProvenRevenueBusiness ModelsAdvertisersThird Parties Author:Dave Eggers
“Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.” LittlesTwoProcessSimpleNumbersCasesModelsMiracleCellsComplexityConsideringEquationsSimplestLinearVariablesLinear Equations Author:Ludwig von Bertalanffy
“They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.” IfsGivingHeartMeanLittlesRealEnoughBeliefSimpleTeachWiseDogReturnOffersLateModelsMirrorsTricksToo LateImaginaryHumaneHumane Society Author:Marjorie Garber
“My advice to aspriring models is less is more, try not to do crazy hair and makeup, keep it simple but beautiful when you're trying to find an agency and get started.” TryingBeautifulSimpleCrazyAdviceHairModelsAgencyMakeupLess Is MoreKeep It SimpleHair And Makeup Author:Liris Crosse