inside of atoms work, how the inside of quarks work?" And I don't know the answer to that but just being a little more pragmatic , if I go back, say, a hundred years, where people were trying to understand how the protons and neutrons inside atoms held together, how they split, how they,how you could combine them and so forth, this has led to nuclear power. Now, whatever you think about nuclear power, and
can be as romantic as the bank's vision or as pragmatic as wanting to be the number one consumer goods company in Colombia.That's the right dream. I want to be, let's say, the fastest-growing Google subsidiary
Yeah. We went to Sundance and-- the whole process of making this movie, we treated it very pragmatic and very practical.And we had our idea of DIY distribution, like what would happen if we got no distribution deal or anything like that.
degree there were a number of people from the West Coast during your service out there did it lead to a more pragmatic approach to judging or otherwise influen you I don't know um I don't like to try to evaluate my ownservice and my own work I don't think any of us can evaluate ourselves very
I'll conclude by saying I find China fascinating, its per capita income is $4,000; it's very pragmatic . The highest speed learning environment I've ever been in in terms of picking stuff up is quite amazing to watch.But China is the only country ever at $4,000 a per capita income, which less than tenth of ours, to have systemically important effects on the rest of the global economy. It's just
right pragmatic you know no nonsense because i think they're going to have form their
Look at those girls. Pragmatically, he has made really good decisions, but what do I do with what the son is asking?
So we need to use all of the devices and, I suppose, imagination that theater brings. very pragmatic decisions. And I think in the end, they do the one thing which is to create this breath and life in the puppet.
And so what I'd like to do in a fairly brisk way, moving right along here is to explore this material with you, particularly with an emphasis on pragmatic , immediately applicable tools. And I know the slides will be available to you later.
So there's a power operator-- which you see is a very similar symbol to the mathematical exponentiation, it just has a dieresis above it-- Be pragmatic . We encourage a functional style of programming, but we don't demand it.
And in particular, we'll talk about the way that needless creativity, narcissistic creativity, saps energy from the pragmatic creativity that you actually need to get things done. So there's this interplay between the good excellence and the bad excellence, the good collaboration and the bad collaboration, and the good creativity and the bad
You definitely don't want to try to save all human knowledge on your computer. This is a pragmatic , not a super idealistic philosophy.
they're doing, but going deeper and maybe how they're thinking and who are they being when they show up in a certain way at work? There are so many pragmatic tips in there.
In her book "Off-Earth," Erika Nesvold explores the ethical and sociocultural implications of building new human settlements in space, raising thought-provoking questions both philosophical and pragmatic from should we settle space and who owns space to what happens if someone steals my stuff in space and what if I want to have children in space. Erika Nesvold is an astrophysicist who has worked as a researcher at NASA Goddard and the Carnegie Institute for Science.
So in modern day, planning very helpful for survival. And also very pragmatic if we're making-- planning a trip, it's helpful to plan. Not just to say, oh, I'll just go to the airport and see if there are tickets whenever I can get a ticket.
We're much more pragmatic as a people.
what's pragmatic . It's what's going to probably make profits.
I'm a very pragmatic person.
And for a pragmatic example, let's take an example from nutrition.
And I'm going to talk about how to do that now. This framework is pragmatic and eclectic.
They are pragmatic and profitable.
But however pragmatic this might be, it's very much been at the expense of an aesthetics that emphasizes the surprising, the unpredictable,
I'm the ruthlessly pragmatic one in this duo.
And they're highly pragmatic , try very hard to make dispassionate decisions.
As a pragmatic matter, it's a little trickier.
It's just very pragmatic in that medical books before 1550 tended to be published in Latin.
But there's a pragmatic element to it.
a very pragmatic practice, right?
But on a pragmatic level, how do you do it?
So thinking about that pragmatic piece, and then link that to organizations
and tangible pragmatic policy outcomes.
It's pragmatic . It's flexible.
And what pragmatic means depends on the cultural context.
It was both a pragmatic proposal, as he saw it.
for a very pragmatic age.
Jeff Potter: I'm pragmatic .
as goals and develop pragmatic and accountable plans to make can happen and given the amount of time we
tough-minded pragmatic they're going to do what works I don't care if it hurts your feelings would go in that direction
know with the very pragmatic issue of of you know discovering something new that
Or the social pragmatics piece.
to accomplish goals in a pragmatic sense, in a political sense, in a geopolitical sense, in a military sense, in a social sense. And so there's that dance of
- Deng Xiaoping was by far our most pragmatic leader.
because I certainly didn't want some pragmatic second voice in the equation telling me, maybe you should go to college, maybe you shouldn't move to California,
But it also has a very pragmatic and practical aspect, which is that our country can't be healthy and productive,
So starting from a very pragmatic standpoint, understanding everything is a gray area.
And then in a more pragmatic level, how do we think we want to navigate things like careers when the children come?
Swamji thought this is a very pragmatic solution for a very practical problem that this woman has.
I think coupled with probably the most pragmatic solution to these gerrymandering problems is the judicial solution,
And they want something more pragmatic , more collaborative, something that gets things done.
So it was a very pragmatic deal related point.