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  • People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

  • A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

    Family   Loss   Venture  
    "Brad Pitt Is Finally 'Satisfied'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 15, 2011.
  • Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

    "What is strategy?" by Michael Porter, Harvard Business Review, November 1996.
  • We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.

    John Trudell (1994). “Stickman: John Trudell Poems, Lyrics, Talks, a Conversation”
  • The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

  • Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

  • Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people will think you’re too braggy, too loud, too something. But the trade-off is undoubtedly worth it. Power and authenticity are worth it.

  • Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.

    Real   Impact   Errors  
  • Every purchasing decision involves a trade-off between what I call fidelity and convenience. Fidelity is the total experience of something - how great the experience is. Convenience is how easy it is to get something. A live concert is a high fidelity way to experience music; an MP3 file is a high convenience way to experience music. Depending on the situation, one or the other is probably pretty appealing. What's not appealing is something that offers neither.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

    Years   Fifty   Computer  
    Paul Dourish (2004). “Where the Action is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction”, p.1, MIT Press
  • There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.

    Source: www.independent.co.uk
  • Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It’s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.

  • I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.

    Balance   Kind   Film  
  • Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.

    Jobs   Children   Work  
    "Family Politics: Love and Power on an Intimate Frontier". Book by Letty Cottin Pogrebin, 1983.
  • Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

  • Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.

    "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
  • The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.

    Looks   Trade   Asks  
  • One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

    People   Cost   Done  
  • Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

  • I don't know if you're ever prepared for public scrutiny. I don't know if you can even mentally prepare yourself for it. But it is part of the job. It's maybe not the most pleasant part but I get to experience so many other things that I shouldn't be able to experience. So, that's the trade-off.

    Jobs   Able   Scrutiny  
    "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Megan Fox interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

    Kikizo Interview, archive.videogamesdaily.com. April 2, 2009.
  • First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

  • It's really a trade-off: you're always having to decide whether you're going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little clarity - or are you going to say something really clearly, and sacrifice a little nuance? Get too obscure, and you sound like a pretentious asshole; go overboard with the clarity, and you sound like you're talking down to your audience, or like you yourself are a reductive simpleton.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

    "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.
  • Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

    Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
  • Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

    Jobs   Doe   Machines  
  • When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

    "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.
  • I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution that has utterly outgrown its roots which were noble... the real difference was the introduction of the euro.

    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

    "Tim Cook Speaks Up" by Tim Cook, www.bloomberg.com. October 30, 2014.
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