Murray Rothbard

What is so terrible about transaction costs? On what basis are they considered the ultimate evil, so that their minimization must override all other considerations of choice, freedom, and justice?

American Economist

Henry Petroski

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

American Author

Used to stress the importance of reducing something harmful like waste or cost.

Priority Focus

Often has a positive connotation as it aims to improve efficiency or safety.

Positive Goal

In math, it's about solving problems to find the smallest possible outcome.

Problem Solving

Relates to optimization where the goal can be to minimize or maximize.

Optimization Link

In tech, minimization indicates making programs run more efficiently.

Tech Efficiency

Used to indicate the reduction of digital resources like memory or CPU time.

Resource Management

May imply someone is downplaying serious issues, often as a defense mechanism.

Emotional Context

Can suggest refusal to accept the true extent of a situation or feeling.

Denial Indicator

 and so we have procedures in place that shreds that out, that says, when you find that, not if you find it, when you find it, because you're certain to find it, here's how you protect that. These are called minimization procedures. They're approved by the attorney general and constitutionally based. And so we protect those.

Minimization