Quotes About Cost

Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?

As the cost of renewables plummets, the clean energy transition is increasingly driven by the business case.

Clean air and clean ocean, you can't translate that into money if you look at the cost to health, cost to fishery industry.

Doing processing locally has its advantages. For instance, the cost of an endpoint CPU and memory is a 1000x cheaper than the cost of CPU and memory in the server. And in many places around the world, connectivity and transmission costs are sometimes far more expensive than the device.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

With transparency in renewables, the prices of renewables are coming down drastically.

Digital Asset has a revolutionary technology platform that eliminates the counterparty risk and lack of transparency that has hindered mainstream adoption of cryptographic technology. The possibilities for reducing cost and risk in settlement are enormous.

When we talk about a city's cost of living, we don't mean food, transportation, or clothing, which cost about the same everywhere. We mean housing.

The cost of airline tickets will never be transparent as long as the Department of Transportation requires airlines to hide taxes, surcharges, and fees from consumers.

We rip out a perfectly good kitchen worth thousands of pounds, only to replace it with another costing roughly the same. The old one has to be disposed of, the new one had to be made. From raw materials, factory processes and transportation the extra effort is substantial. Overcomplication.

Raising the cost of public transit would burden residents who can least afford transportation alternatives and punish commuters who are doing the most to ease traffic and improve air quality.

It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits. That is how the 21,000 billionaires and millionaires got that way. This $16,000,000,000 profits is not to be sneezed at. It is quite a tidy sum. And it went to a very few.

L'amour coûte cher aux vieillards—I think that was the title of one of Balzac's most moving stories, and many could be written on the subject. But the old people who know most about it are happy

Mine to you. Yours to me. Bonded by blood, by spirit and by soul, we are one. No distance too far, no enemy too powerful, no sacrifice too great. I will always find you. I will always protect you. No matter what the cost. I am yours and you are mine. - Elijah

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.