Cost Constraint Quotes

The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced will be ignored because the redundancies they mandate will not be affordable.

Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

I didn't mention the tooth thing to anyone until it became clear that...we started to discuss just taking it out of the movie [The Hangover] because we couldn't find anything that worked and they couldn't afford to do a full like digital effect. So that's when I called my dentist and it worked out.

Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources.

There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."

A low budget is uncomfortable.

Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

I can't speak for other people but the budget of my films is super tight to an extent that people can't even imagine.

The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford.

I have to write three books a year to make a reasonable living out of writing - unless, of course, she gets a major American film deal. Phryne has been optioned since the very first book, but to make a historical TV movie, it costs $30,000 a day extra for the historical detail to be correct, so most people aren't doing it.

What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.