- 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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Lost' pilot was wide enough and included enough things so that when Season Five came, and we spent half of the year in 1973, nobody cried foul. It felt like it was already a part of the DNA.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is competent? Who is it that can adjudicate what is competent or not competent? If the guys that are running the most important banks in our country aren't competent enough, well then, who is competent enough?
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- Nov 07, 2020
The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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- Nov 07, 2020