“Constraint theory asks: What is the price for doing this? Now one way around constraint theory is declaring your enemy crazy. Crazy and stupid are not concepts used in forecasting. When people say they're really stupid or they're crazy, that's laziness. That means I don't want to think through their position or about what they're really going to do.” PeopleThinkingWayWantMeanUsedAsksEnemyCrazyStupidPositionTheoryConceptsOne WayLazinessConstraintsDeclaringReally StupidForecasting Author:George Friedman
“The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going to lend my money to governments who want me to pay them. I am going to go into the stock market where I can get positive returns!"” PeopleIfsWantI CanGovernmentGamesInterestPayTheoryReturnNegativeRateSillyWant MeNegative PeopleInterest Rate Author:Mohamed El-Erian
“[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.” WantWantedTheoryNeededJew Author:Elie Wiesel
“I'm a big fan of rehearsal. I'm famous for pulling the cast together, not so much to formally rehearse, but just to run the lines. My theory of acting is that it takes all your attention just to stay in the moment, and keep your attention on the other person, and get him to do what you want him to do.” WantPersonsMomentsBigsRunningTogetherLinesActingAttentionFansTheoryCastsWhat You WantPullingRehearsalWant Him Author:William H. Macy
“String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.” WantShouldTheoryInstrumentsSevenInstanceDimensionsStringsJust ListenString Theory Author:Fabiola Gianotti
“If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very complicated algorithmic decision. There's no one dude who's deciding what ads are going with things, and it's very individualized also. And that's the idea of collecting information is that in theory, you're showing people things that they should want to see or for which they are a good target. So, no, there's no master person.” PeopleIfsWantShouldKindPersonsIdeasEndsMightDecisionInformationMastersTheoryWeaknessComplicatedAdvertisingTargetAdsCollectingSlippersFurryCollecting Information Author:Tim Wu
“The thing about drugs is this ... the Libertarians kind of have the right idea on this: Basically, their theory is that you own your own body, and the government should get out of your face. But, you also do not have the right to harm other people or to impinge on their rights or space. So, let's apply that to drugs . If you want to get wrecked, and you could afford it, and you have a place to do it where the results of your behavior can't harm another person, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be allowed to do it.” PeopleIfsWantShouldKindPersonsIdeasReasonBodyGovernmentFacesSpaceResultsRightsTheoryDrugBehaviorHarmLibertarianReason WhyYour FaceRight Ideas Author:Frank Zappa
“There's also these moments when you're like, oh, I really want to do different things. Not instead of this show [The Big Bang Theory]. It's just a hunger to do something else, too.” WantDifferentMomentsShowsBigsTheoryHungerDifferent ThingsBangs Author:Simon Helberg
“It hurts to see that everything on television is based on pillaring people. Nobody's sort of given the opportunity to be nice anymore. I think that is somewhat reflective of tragically the society that we live in today where we want to know people off their pedestal or we want to hurt, we want to harm instead of boosting and following by example. It's always about the crud of society, the black sheep of society that producers seem to think the public wants rather than my old theory of the cream rising to the top.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantSeemsTodayOpportunityGivenBlackHurtNiceExampleTelevisionTheoryFollowingHarmProducersRisingSheepCreamBeing NiceIt HurtsPedestalBlack Sheep Author:Robin Leach
“I have always admired the Linking Pin theory of management specialist Rensis Likert. It says that in every organization there are leaders who link the lower level to the upper level. What makes somebody an effective link as a leader is that he conveys down everything that above wants and he conveys up everything that below needs.” WantNeedsLevelsLeaderTheoryOrganizationManagementLinksPinsSpecialists Author:Colin Powell
“In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's like, you borrow $100,000 from a record label, so you don't make any money until you make back that money for them. In theory, they have you held hostage, so you've got to do every little stupid thing that they want you to do.” WantLittlesRecordsStupidTheoryLike YouIndustryLabelsBorrowingHostageStupid ThingsRecord Labels Author:Patrick Carney
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” PeopleKnowsWantHardPoliticsFreedomCommonDemocracyTheoryPoliticianDeserveDemocracies HaveVoting And Democracy Author:H. L. Mencken
“I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsDoneSongStrangeTheoryChaosVideoBizarreMusic BusinessRemixChaos Theory Author:Moby
“I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.” IfsWantFeelsKindCountryHardEnoughPlayEnergyFeltBoysTheoryPrejudiceFortunateAffectedBallgame Author:Taylor Swift