93 Quotes About Practical

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.

In human relationships, those who do not love are rarely loved: those who will not be friends end up by having none. [p. 15 apud Thinking Strategically; on the "Intransigence strategy"]

The only problem with my dreams is the practical side, otherwise it is perfect.

Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.

Better to be Mr. Late than a Late Mr.

The problem is the interdependence of decisions: the jointly preferred outcome arises when each chooses its individually worse strategy. p. 13 [on the prisioner's dilemma and the need to think "jointly" and sum forces]

You may be theoretically rich but practically poor.

My motto is: if its cold outside wear whatever you need to keep warm