soaks into that meat and it's so good we serve it with just plain rice it and like piled up with that brown sugar apt to try whatever they had a hand in making and so it's a great way to get them to try their veggies and get them
This is the mode of thinking where your most creative acts are likely to occur, and where problem solving is apt to occur. So I'm sure you've had this experience that you're trying to solve some problem, work something out.You focus on it.
One of the quotes, I think was from Rolling Stone, said, "If the planet had a lawyer, it would be John Adams." Which I think, from what I know about John and about NRDC is very apt . So, why don't we start?You've been at NRDC; you've been at this business now for 40 years and long before that. Why did you write the book?
dynamic going on here where, as you know, perhaps that there a lot of the major universities at the moment are considering not using the S A. T s the Scholastic Aptitude test for entrance. And for decades, black people have been saying that that test reveals to structural inequity of the schools that black people go to. However, it's used as the kind of meritocratic device to say that all things being equal, you should be able to pass this test and that determines your ability to get into the
So I'm just sort of trying to give you relatively an example or how I think having an engineering aptitude and a systems approach and getting this sort of superficial understanding that I have so enables people to understand better who they are, how they work and I would hope idealistically that if they gain this knowledge that they can realize how they're being imposed upon on by the inadequacy of the mind through ideology and the like and can be encouraged
And the second option was look for an Einstein Brothers Bagel Company -- I told you, I got a four on my mechanical aptitude test, didn't I? I was even able to stand here and do nothing and break the microphone, you know. So there comes Einstein Brothers.
is the way that they learn. So you, you can -- and you can, as it were, get people to admit to errors that they might otherwise conceal. aptitudes. So I suppose there's a bit of a -- bit of a conflict in game science, if you like, between the idea of trying to
And these things kind of mesh together so that if someone says, hey, there's a problem with sexism and patriarchy then a lot of men are apt to say, wait a minute, I'm a good guy. But maybe we didn't say you're not a good guy.
His counterpart in Britain, Margaret Thatcher, I've read-- and is it true-- that she put on a performance of the parrot sketch? and aptitudes that you need to know that you're no good at it.
Why is that? Our brain observes upright faces all the time-- thousands a day. What makes somebody more apt to habituate more quickly than somebody else?
The value, to the United States, of these applications has been calibrated about five years ago. All of those are apt to be within that distance.
and smarter users um there's also one other thought I have about this that I think is is is apt and it is that we are at a time of incredible societal change right now we all know this and you guys are partly responsible for it obviously here at Google um but you know we live in 24-hour news Cycles we have more
and asked me advice. And I was very apt to work with him. He is an incredible young man.
What areas are you interested in, and passionate about? Where are you apt to be able to have an understanding of what a business is worth? And then, what is your, sort of, psychological disposition to being on this treadmill of cigar butts?
So what is giving up and what is just deciding to do something else? I think the most apt example of these baby steps is this interview that we had with Jad Abumrad, the co-founder and host of "RadioLab."
And to me an apt example would be, the cell phone was around for many years, and the computer was around for many years,
We are more apt to catch people doing things wrong than we are to catch them doing things right.
You're more apt to get what you need and get what you want if you give the person a triggering event.
It was a very apt technology for our times and fitting for a company that bothers to tell me that it took only point three six seconds to fetch me those 203 million results.
We're more apt to view choices like the ones Helena has made as quirks or eccentricities.
digital president an apt metor I'd say um and we don't go merily along well no
And I think very aptly, like "Scary Smart," the title has many, many different meanings.
So sort of aptitude tests were given for programmers that really emphasized masculine male characteristics, for instance.
And it's aptly named, because the human body cannot survive for very long above 26,000 feet.
And his aptitude for improvisation is mind-blowing.
have different aptitudes, different talents, and different training that might be required.
google labs aptitude test I don't know if any of you have seen that but which was a series of questions like an SAT
I think that we are so apt to keep people around when they're not serving us any longer because we're afraid of hurting
And I think that term "Frankenstein" is apt .
So I think my name is pretty apt .
And I thought that was a really apt moment in the play, when you mentioned like, what are the role models?
That's why American horror stories is apt analogy.
despite the disruptions that they're apt to cause.
I thought that was a really apt commentary, because I'm someone who feels left behind in the ultra violent, ultra realistic, murky world.
A comparison with China would be very apt because many people, obviously, are interested in the two Asian giants in terms of population we're now more number two, respectively. In
technologies that you um just uh aptly mentioned uh will be used by the authorities to try to track down who
After passing the written flight aptitude exam and doing a round of recruiting publicity photos, I was off to women officer candidate school
if they have the vernacular and the aptitude, so be it.
The guy who did those workplace Aptos ran some stats on it.
And they gave me two days of aptitude tests and interviews.
And if they test high for aptitude, their math abilities, or their language abilities, then they will also be routed into the code-breaking operation.
You need have high quantitative aptitude, as measured by your third grade math test, and you need to be from a high income family.
Flexibility-- they like people that have the aptitude and interest to do a lot of different things, that could be moved from one job
was because of any kind of innate aptitude problems, or that women didn't want to work hard-- as hard as men.
form that was intended to test your aptitude for being an engineer at Google
who covered Watergate has so aptly put they are the gift that keep on giving uh
in the glass cases of the museum aptly superimposed upon the jewels, dresses and other treasures within.
It's kind of interesting. I don't know about four o'clock in the morning. I got a four on my mechanical aptitude test out of a hundred. I'm not sure I'm going to be the one to fix the ovens in the middle of the night. But you know what?
big word but I actually do think it's apt here because when you start making the case that there is an optimal being
And I thought of that as sort of an apt metaphor for what businesses are like.