#expensive

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#achieve #cost #degradation #each #expensive

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify. ↗

— Evan Davis

#consumption #element #enters #expensive #extra

As men get older, the toys get more expensive. ↗

— Marvin Davis

#expensive #get #men #more #older

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#crazy #expensive #i #like #me

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. ↗

— Arthur Bloch

#compromise #compromising #either #expensive #more

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning. ↗

— Conrad Burns

#between #bring #bulbs #come #dirt

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#been #cars #collect #collector #collects

It's very expensive to bring a band to New York. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#bring #expensive #new #new york #very

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#another time #computer #consuming #expensive #factor

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#expensive #heads #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy