If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
If India is computer, Congress is its default program.
Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
Patriots don't let their nation default.
Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.
Women are feminist by default.
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it all. So that guy making ten million a year selling credit default swaps, if we're going to keep five million of it in escrow for ten years, and with the right to go back and get it, if he starts losing money, then we're going to give people the right incentives not too take so much risk.
Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.
Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.
I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
Pessimism is my default setting.
I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything else involves some "perturbation. " This is a mental model, a conceptual frame, a tacit belief, a presupposition - whatever you want to call it.
