Quotes About Selection

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

You could pick your friends, but not your Presidents.

It is usually good to provide people with lots of options, but when the question is complicated, sensible choice architecture guides people in the right directions.

people make good choices in contexts in which they have experience, good information, and prompt feedback—say, choosing among ice cream flavors.

Given that people would often choose not to choose, it is hard to see why freedom lovers should compel choice even though people (freely and voluntarily) resist it. If we ask the waiter to select a good bottle of wine to go with our dinner, we will not be happy if he says that we should just choose for ourselves!

John Rawls (1971) called the publicity principle. In its simplest form, the publicity principle bans government from selecting a policy that it would not be able or willing to defend publicly to its own citizens.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

Wondrous! he thought, how the heart leaps when one is chosen, especially later in life, after one would suppose the time for choosing and being chosen has passed.

They chose the olive They must really like olives Forget it Now if she invented pizza that i can understand -Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif

Blue wasn't my favorite color

Jackson would have chosen himself. It was designed

one did she want first, the small one or the big one. "The small one," said Gloria. I handed her the Littmus Lozenge and she moved it around in her hands, feeling it. "Candy?" she said.

And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.

PICK PICK PICK QUICK QUICK QUICK.

So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.

He knew that saying, and he delivered the punch line: "But all the other ways are worse.

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again and opened the other. "This is my financing.

A wine cellar requires order, forethought and good taste

As the proverb says, if you're offered two bad apples you pick the least rotten one. And that's Kang.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

Everybody who writes about Blake begins by saying that he was a visionary. It is a vague term. All artists, even the most realistic, start with some kind of vision - that is what leads them to select what they need from the infinite diversity of appearances.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.