Efficiency Principal Agent

Famous quotes containing the words efficiency, principal and/or agent:

    “I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.”
    —Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974)

    “Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”
    —Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)

    “... in doing our psychology, we want to attribute mental states fully opaquely because it’s the fully opaque reading which tells us what the agent has in mind, and it’s what the agent has in mind that causes his behavior.”
    —Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)