Quotes About Resource

Conceptually, we believe that embedded mining will ultimately establish bitcoin as a fundamental system resource on par with CPU, bandwidth, hard drive space, and RAM.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

I'd rather you waste my money than waste my time.

To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.

Special operations are small, highly specialized. They do amazing work when they're put into the fight, but it's a limited resource. And so if we become overly dependent on an organization that's designed for a very specific mission and expect them to solve all problems around the world, you're naturally going to overextend it.

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.

There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn't know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn't find it. There was nothing.

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.

Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of money. I hadn't known that, I said. I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there. There might as well be, Arsibalt said, but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

Felt-tip markers, always a scarce resource even on Earth, became objects of great value as people used them to mark directions on the walls of hamster tubes and habitat modules.

The expenditure of paper and printer ink had been somewhat lavish. Two generations from now, if any humans survived, they would look on this heap of documents with some combination of disgust and amazement. Because paper was going to be scarce by then, and they would view its use for such purposes in roughly the same way as Americans of the twenty-first century had viewed the use of sperm whale oil to fuel streetlamps.

Smith observed that society can function purely on utilitarian grounds or on the basis of gratitude, but he clearly believed that societies of gratitude were more attractive in large part because they provide an important emotional resource for promoting social stability.

Obviously, the higher the density of an energy resource, the lower are its transportation (as well as storage) costs, and this means that its production can take place farther away from the centers of demand.

KEY RESOURCE: Frances Frei and Anne Morriss' book Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business

God gives air to men; the law sells it to them.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.