A Quote by Lord Kelvin

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Lord Kelvin

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Lord Kelvin
Irish - Scientist
June 26, 1824 - December 17, 1907

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

Lord Kelvin

Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities increases the cost of generating electricity, locks in fossil fuels, and increases the environmental footprint of energy production.

Michael Shellenberger

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

Glenn Hubbard

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

David Lynch

The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.

Robert Kiyosaki

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!

Stephen Hawking

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

Thomas Malthus

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

John Wilbanks

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Baltasar Gracian

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

Barbara Taylor Bradford

As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.

William Schutz

When you have a system that increases border security funding by about 300 percent, and it only increases funding for immigration courts by 70 percent, you have a disaster.

Marc Veasey

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

Ken Buck

Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.