Alan Kay
Alan Kay

In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.

Bill Veeck
Bill Veeck

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

C. Northcote Parkinson
C. Northcote Parkinson

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

C. Northcote Parkinson
C. Northcote Parkinson

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Charles Edward Montague
Charles Edward Montague

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Charles Kennedy
Charles Kennedy

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.

David Weinberger
David Weinberger

I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.

G. Willow Wilson
G. Willow Wilson

'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

Hamish Bowles
Hamish Bowles

I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.

Hans Eysenck
Hans Eysenck

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.