- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enough Quotes
Knowing what's enough, and what isn't.
This collection of enough quotes touches on the gap between clever ideas and real-world application in technical research, and the frustration of not being able to work fast enough to keep up with demand. One entry recalls a lucky, extended research collaboration. Related reflections continue in our Enough Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is good enough for us.
- Fairness
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is good enough for Scotland is good enough for England. Fairness demands no less.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions.
- Emerson
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
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- Nov 07, 2020