Quotes by David Epstein

“The Saarinen building is open and big, but you can fit it in our lobby.”

“It was appropriate to do something to make a dent in the compensation that the bishop hadnt received,”

“Bishop Long has never received the legal amount of compensation he is due by law, ... How To Maximize Your Clergy Salary and Benefits Package.”

“Were in a republic, not a democracy. The founders were very careful to say they were worried about allowing people to directly elect representatives.”

“If we had that again, where somebody won the election without winning the popular vote, the system would be changed in an instant,”

“When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.”

“I think there is a lot of quality control and quality assurance built into what were doing here. There is a high degree of comfort for companies to make that leap of faith.”

“This is where the rubber hits the road. Generally its a 2-8 week training program these folks go through, but if you ask them and say, Who do you work for? theyd say I work for AT&T. They wouldnt say Precision Response. We go out of our way to lose that identity.”

“Two years ago our industry was pegged to be an $80 billion industry, and about 5 percent of that, or $4 billion, outsourced, ... Some new data we looked at shows that this industry by the year 2,000 will go to about $120 billion, with about $23 billion being outsourced.”

“Two years ago our industry was pegged to be an $80 billion industry, and about 5 percent of that, or $4 billion, outsourced. Some new data we looked at shows that this industry by the year 2,000 will go to about $120 billion, with about $23 billion being outsourced.”

If you want to know if your kid is going to be fast, the best genetic test right now is a stopwatch. Take him to the playground and have him face the other kids. Fosters point is that, despite the avant-garde allure of genetic testing, gauging speed indirectly is foolish and inaccurate compared with testing it directly - like measuring a mans height by dropping a ball from a roof and using the time it takes to hit him in the head to determine how tall he is. Why not just use a tape measure?

“It may very well be that if you were to take all the research funding in the country and you put it in Alzheimers disease, you would never get to the solution. But the answer to Alzheimers disease may come from a misfolding protein in a cucumber. But how are you going to write a grant on a cucumber? And who are you going to send it to? If somebody gets interested in a folding protein in a cucumber and its a good scientific question, leave them alone. Let them torture the cucumber.”