Top Top Down Quotes Collection

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Image of Alan Perlis
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
- Alan Perlis
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Image of Seth Klarman
We worry top-down, but we invest bottom-up
- Seth Klarman
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Image of George F. R. Ellis
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.
- George F. R. Ellis
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Image of Sam Nunn
Leadership must be established from the top down.
- Sam Nunn
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Image of Jeffrey Rosen
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.
- Jeffrey Rosen
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Image of Manuel De Landa
Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it into its constituent parts is bound to miss precisely those emergent properties
- Manuel De Landa
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Image of Fred Ritchin
The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.
- Fred Ritchin
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Image of Preston Manning
The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.
- Preston Manning
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Image of Barack Obama
I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Barack Obama
So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Jeremy Rifkin
The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, could become obsolete.
- Jeremy Rifkin
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Image of Philip Yancey
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
- Philip Yancey
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of George Will
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
- George Will
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Image of Barack Obama
We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Barack Obama
I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Hillary Clinton
What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.
- Hillary Clinton
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Image of Jamie Dimon
They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market reform that come with it.
- Jamie Dimon
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Image of Jacqueline Novogratz
There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
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Image of Eduardo Galeano
Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.
- Eduardo Galeano
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Image of Morgan Parker
It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down.
- Morgan Parker
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Image of Jesse Jackson
We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
- Jesse Jackson
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