Objectives Quotes

“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.”

“Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.”

“America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.”

“People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.”

“Objectives are only words written on paper without passion and desire”

“Without delayed gratification, goals are not achieved and objectives don’t get accomplished.”

“When our objectives become purely military, we've already lost the larger fight.”

“Our goals and objectives are supposed to be well planned out in our minds.”

“Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.”