Quotes About Comparison

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society.

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.

I don't think I am as useful as a bat is to the society.

New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running.

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

That is the most difficult thing: to feel that you are useless, not worth as much as before, not worth as much as the others.

I cannot compare and contrast Tinder and Bumble directly, but I will say that we have a very impressive, forward-thinking user base.

If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated.

Google+ will never have a user base to rival Facebook's. It just won't. Not even if you include the 'users' who create accounts so that they can use other Google services.

A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

In any given project, there are a few moments where there is the usual disappointment, as it were, when you look in the mirror, and you realize you're not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt.

In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.