Alternatives Quotes - Page 14

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and 90s music to Dave Matthews.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society.

I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before we take the kind of risks that require courage, we ought to exhaust other less risky alternatives.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

We should see dreaming as one of our responsibilitie s, rather than an alternative to one.

We mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the alternatives here?

[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.

The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always sloppily or dishonestly. A specimen I've seen on more occasions than I can count is the line (usually presented with a sense of witty originality) "if you are opposed to economic rationalism, you must be in favor of economic irrationalism"... I've come to the conclusion that the word "rational" has no meaning that cannot better be conveyed by some alternative term and that the best advice is probably to avoid it altogether.

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"