Quotes About Alternatives

There's no reason why there needs to be one search engine or one social network or one store that we buy all of our crap from. It's possible to imagine a world in which there's actually competition.

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I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

The spirit is able to consider alternatives, and God prompts us to have an interest in what is better and best.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

More options, even good ones, can freeze us and make us retreat to the default plan

A 1993 study by Nutt, which analyzed 168 decisions in this laborious way, came to a stunning conclusion: Of the teams he studied, only 29% considered more than one alternative.† By way of comparison, 30% of the teens in the Fischhoff study considered more than one alternative.

You cannot choose any of the current options you're considering. What else could you

decision paralysis. More options, even good ones, can freeze us and make us retreat to the default plan

What if we started every decision by asking some simple questions: What are we giving up by making this choice? What else could we do with the same time and money?

Focusing is great for analyzing alternatives but terrible for spotting them. Think about the visual analogy—when we focus we sacrifice peripheral vision.

The Paradox of Choice

We are entering an era of unprecedented choice. And thats a good thing.

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It is a veiling of alternatives, a way of making sure you don't reject the choice Mother's made for you. No matter what, you will not starve. She has a hunch that over the years, usage of this recipe has always fallen on the shadow side of things.

The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.

Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of pharmaceutical conglomerates. More than that, we pay too much for health care, it's not good enough, and the system is too complex. We need alternatives.

Humans have given away all their power to a "they". You aren't able to fight the system because without the system none of you can survive. You made a world without alternatives, and now it is dying, and your new world already belongs to "they".' 'I

You were free to choose enslavement, but the choice was a free one only if you knew what your alternatives were.

Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.