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Quotes About Drawbacks

Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically as it does.
~ Douglas Adams
Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the processes of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does. The easiest way to fool a completely logical robot is to feed it the same stimulus sequence over and over again so it gets locked in a loop.
~ Douglas Adams
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
~ St. Jerome
Focus on reaping the great benefits and mitigating the drawbacks
~ Jason Fried
Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought bitterly. The world of power and property required that a man be suspicious, demanding, and insistent.
~ Ken Follett
Wealth—great wealth—is a curse . . . unless you are devoted to the money-making game for its own sake. And even then it has serious drawbacks.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Because great wealth is a curse—unless you enjoy money-making for its own sake. Even then it has serious drawbacks.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us seriously happy.
~ Alain de Botton
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us seriously happy. 2.     Chloe
~ Alain de Botton
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
The meeting dealt a blow to Rockefeller and Watson, for the railroads agreed to abrogate the SIC contract, end rebates and drawbacks, and institute uniform rates for all shippers.
~ Ron Chernow
There certainly are some drawbacks to belonging to a busy man no matter how fine he may be as I believe you have sometimes found out.48
~ Ron Chernow
Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.
~ Gary Weiss
Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
~ Arnold Bennett
Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
~ Arnold Bennett
It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.
~ James Gleick
It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.
~ Steve Israel
In spite of the land's natural drawbacks, they turned Sumer into a veritable Garden of Eden and developed what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man.
~ Samuel Noah Kramer
There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.
~ Nathaniel Smith
Like piss ," she hollered, shaking her head. "There are some drawbacks," said Zamira, "to raising children among sailors. But then I myself am no doubt making the largest contribution to her vocabulary." " Piiiisssss ," yelled Cosetta, giggling and immensely pleased with herself.
~ Scott Lynch
But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of love and responsibility. Every possible choice seemed to have drawbacks, and sometimes he didn't understand why the drawbacks were drawbacks. It was very hard.
~ Stephen King
One of the many drawbacks of this I teach what I am approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.
~ Maureen Corrigan
This was exactly what I had noticed about the "stopping" aspect of First Steps. When we try a new habit for the first time, it feels full of promise, even if it's arduous. But most of that excitement is gone the second time, and the habit's drawbacks are more apparent. Plus, there's the discouraging feeling of having lost ground, of going backwards. "Hang in there," I said.
~ Gretchen Rubin
This was exactly what I had noticed about the "stopping" aspect of First Steps. When we try a new habit for the first time, it feels full of promise, even if it's arduous. But most of that excitement is gone the second time, and the habit's drawbacks are more apparent. Plus, there's the discouraging feeling of having lost ground, of going backwards.
~ Gretchen Rubin