#opt

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#biology #id #intelligent-design #optimisation #optimization

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#optimism #responsibility #responsibility

If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #optimistic #philosophy #wisdom #dreams

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#hope #new-day #optimism #spirit

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#optimism #pessimism #schizophrenia #universe

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#tolkien #unexpected

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#night #optimism #night

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#seti #universe #space

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst. ↗

— Stephen King

#preparedness #king

How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#blue #helicopters #lol #ethics