Quotes About Trade-off

We were doing this shopping search and saying, "We want a test where on this query we want to get 80 percent right answers." And so they're saying, "Right! So if it's a wrong answer it's a bug, right?" And I said, "No, it's OK to have one wrong answer as long at it's not 80 percent." So they say, "So a wrong answer's not a bug?" It was like those were the only two possibilities. There wasn't an idea that it's more of a trade-off.

For the media covering serial murder it is not the number of victims that counts anymore. But their celebrity status or credit rating. The trade off these days is one upscale SUV in the driveway for every 10 dead hookers in a dumpster.

I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact.

When you win, you often lose, that's just the fact.

When you win, you often lose

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

I don't want the bottom, so I have to sacrifice the top.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Money often costs too much

For every grain of wit, there is a grain of folly. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something

For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.

I was deeply loved. And scarred. Which is a pretty good trade-off in my holiday book.

Es mejor soportar algunos determinados dolores para gozar de placeres mayores. Conviene privarse de algunos determinados placeres para no sufrir dolores penosos Testimonios escogidos, fragmento 34.

Facing a choice, we gave up rationality rather than give up the enterprise.

Because we have accepted the view that there is a trade-off between equality and liberty, we think we have to choose. Lately, we have come, as a people, to choose liberty.

Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

I've got a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age.

But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.

No matter what we want of life — we have to give up something in order to get it.

Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.

I would give up barbecuing for a championship.