Rule-based Quotes

I've always been a ... believer in good regulation.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

The United Nations, and the way we approach collective security, must be adapted to changing circumstances. The United Nations is our prime instrument for effective multilateral solutions and a rule-based international order.

It is a labor of love, but there is a lot of labor, especially when you're trying to build a big, epic world with lots of details and a kind of physics of magic that makes some sense and actually has some rules to it.

The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

We want to be sure that it is more profitable to play by the rules than it is to game the system.

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

I like the rule that corrects emotion.

I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules.

My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.

I've always been very passionate about issues. Being speaker, you kind of have to park the positions on issues and focus more on the rules.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values.

One of our rules for the show, I guess the filter we try to pass everything through, is it's a safe place for women to be. It's not a show for women, because we're basically 50/50 men/women in our audience, but it's a safe place where women win. Women never lose on our show. I think that's very important. It's very unusual.

There cannot be a law-abiding society if no one knows in advance what law they are to abide by, but must wait for judges to create ex post facto legal rulings based on “evolving standards” rather than known rules.

I think of choosing as a... both a fun and an effortful activity and I think of choice as something that in order for you to really get what you want out of it you have to put a lot into it and so I'm only willing to do that for a few different things and for the rest I really just try to either satisfy, come up with a simple rule or let somebody else make the choice.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.