Quotes About Misleading

Worse still, programs like these may lead employers to optimize for misleading metrics, like maximizing for "likes" or "shares" or high "net promoter scores," which are easy to earn when programs are fun and fluent but not when they're demanding. Instead of designing for recall or behavior change, we risk designing for popularity.

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths.

I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.

There are so many people around young kids nowadays it can make it very tough and difficult - people who think they are going to care for those kids but do the opposite.

The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.

The world of online marketing, where HubSpot operates, though, has a reputation for being kind of grubby. Our customers include people who make a living bombarding people with email offers or gaming Google's search algorithm or figuring out which kind of misleading subject line is most likely to trick someone into opening a message.

half truths equal whole lies

A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.

Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.

I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

It may be that hope misleads. But hate—hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor.

It hadn't turned out at all like the picture in the cookbook, that loaf. It looked like a roll of fiberglass insulation coated in gravel.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better.

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

However, the molasses metaphor has three misleading features that you should be aware of.

Beware of the health halo. The better the food, the worse the extras. People eating 'low-fat' granola ate 21 percent more calories, and those eating 'healthy' at Subway rewarded themselves by ordering cheese, mayo, chips, and cookies. Who really overeats—the guy who knows he's eating 710 calories at McDonald's, or the woman who thinks she's eating a 350-calorie Subway meal that actually contains 500 calories?

Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.