David Epstein Quotations

We're in a republic, not a democracy. The founders were very careful to say they were worried about allowing people to directly elect representatives.

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

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

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

Our goal is to find out how many landowners are interested. They should give us a call. We're looking for willing landowners.

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.

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

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

This is where the rubber hits the road. Generally it's a 2-8 week training program these folks go through, but if you ask them and say, 'Who do you work for?' they'd say 'I work for AT&T.' They wouldn't say Precision Response. We go out of our way to lose that identity.

A bikini bottom is not much different from what we're wearing. A few inches of flesh isn't going to make a difference.

You talk to mayors and council members in these river communities and they know every street in town. It's almost a prerequisite for their jobs. But very, very few know the river. It's a forgotten river.

It was appropriate to do something to make a dent in the compensation that the bishop hadn't received,

Nothing is infallible, but it's much more robust today. When performed to specifications, DNA test results are 100 percent accurate.

In 1994, the testing was done directly on the sample, and if the stain was degraded or too small, you got insufficient results. Now, it's amplified by making copies of the target DNA. So the labs can work with smaller samples or partially degraded samples.