Quotes About Sophisticated

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

It is not difficult now to make good food because we have sophisticated equipment and refined ingredients. Being innovative also helps you. It sets you apart from other chefs. But taste is king.

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.

For instance, new forms of media have enhanced the age-old ability of politicians and others to play on our emotions, in ever subtler and more sophisticated ways. Advertisers bombard us with highly effective subliminal messages.

We want to imagine ourselves not only as civilized and sophisticated but also as individuals with conscious control of much of what we do. Our group behavior tends to shatter this myth, and historical examples such as the Cultural Revolution frighten us with our own possibilities. We do not like to see ourselves as social animals operating under particular compulsions. It offends our self-opinion as a species.

President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), announced in 1983 and calling for a nationwide missile defense using very sophisticated technology, both angered and, I believe, terrified the Soviets. As I joked at the time, there appeared to be only two people on the planet who actually thought SDI would work—Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviets were under enormous economic pressure by that time and knew they could not compete with such a system.

If you have to boil this book down to a single phrase, it would be it's complicated.

The sophisticated investor is someone who has money and understands both fundamental investment techniques as well as technical trading techniques.

The sophisticated investor is not watching a long-term average, but a moving average.

When the trend of the market is down, the sophisticated investor will use put options not only to make money, but also to protect the value of her stock in case prices begin to fall.

And the best investments are usually first sold to sophisticated investors, who then turn around and sell them to the people playing it safe.

There are sophisticated investors who never buy or sell stocks. They trade only in options.

if the price of the investor's stock is $50 per share, a sophisticated investor may have a call option placed at $52 per share and a put option in place at $48 per share.

There are sophisticated investors who will straddle a short by buying a call option for $51. If the trend did turn up and the stock price went to $60, the investor would pay $51 per share instead of $60 a share, again minimizing their exposure.

and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

The core – and perhaps unexpected – thing that books do for us is simplify. It sounds odd, because we think of literature as sophisticated. But there are powerful ways in which books organise, and clarify our concerns – and in this sense simplify.

Nathan Seiberg of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton said, "I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

Oh, yes, I'm very refined, Peter.

It's a city that has its own heartbeat. I just can't believe how many people there are, how crowded it is, how sophisticated everyone looks.

Help yourself to some cheese, and these-" Georgia pointed to a square platter- "are smoked salmon, chive, creme fraiche, and Asian pear rolls, and these-" she pointed to a second platter-"are foie gras toast points with fig glee." "Interesting," said Dorothy. "How... unusual." "What's this?" Hal asked, picking up one of three cordials filled with soup. "That's a black-trumpet-mushroom veloute. It's very rich.

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.