Optimization requires processes that are more complex than those needed to merely satisfice.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

It tells readers to set standards and look for "good enough," rather than holding out for the very best conceivable choice: to "satisfice," in the jargon of social scientists, rather than "maximize.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Reference

Except thow wilt saye that to satisfice is nothing els/but when one doth make himself approued vnto an other man.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference

Dynamic Tension eliminates the tendency to satisfice by making it impossible to succeed without thinking differently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegant Solution] Reference

There is always some foot-dragging in order to satisfice sufficient numbers of the laggards to justify a game from a business perspective.    From Wordnik.com.  [March 2005] Reference

To satisfice is "to decide on and pursue a course of action that will satisfy the minimum requirements necessary to achieve a particular goal" OED.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Choose a Sewing Machine - A Dress A Day] Reference

Godd will thincke vppon them/if it be true that either a man must satisfice/or go to pugatorie/if Godd wil so sharply punishe them by such paynes as they saye are in purgatorie.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference

Moreouer they do teache that euery mã must satisfice for hys synnes in this lyfe/which if he do not/then must he go to purgatorie: And that by the poure of the Keyes committed vnto them/they can turn the euerlastinge punishment in to a temporall.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference

I'm aiming for expediency with a dash of entertainment and I will satisfice my way to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Split An Atom] Reference

When you satisfice, you don't let an impossible quest for the perfect destroy your enjoyment of the good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Reference

People across the globe who regularly satisfice report higher levels of overall happiness - in every stage of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Huntington News RSS] Reference

Vendors are not credible when speaking for their users, because they don't: they speak for their interests in trying to get, satisfice and keep users.    From Wordnik.com.  [O'Reilly News] Reference

The idea that consumers satisfice rather than optimize when fitting their wants to their budget was first raised by psychologist Herbert Simon, who subsequently won the Economics Nobel Prize in 1978.    From Wordnik.com.  [P2P Foundation] Reference

When I did my dissertation in 1998-1999, I was just seeing a glimmering of the idea that Internet access (then web and email) was more important than locally hosted applications (and thus application variety was an attribute to satisfice and not maximize).    From Wordnik.com.  [Open IT Strategies] Reference

Consumers don’t assume that claims are true, but do use them to satisfice, so they require claims to be reliable enough to use even though they are exquisitely aware of the advertiser’s intent to induce purchase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Cause:We satisfice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegant Solution] Reference

People do try to satisfice rather than maximize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference

• to "satisfice" - make choices more easily, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Positive Psychology News Daily] Reference

But they will not see/that the fathers mẽt therby/to satisfice the churche/when they were receyued publiquely to repentaunce/and not to satisfice to Godd.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference

For euen so are we saide to satisfice to Godd/when as after our cõuercion and turning to his grace/we do lyue godly for his pleasure/to aproue our selues vnto hym/as his childrẽ.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference

That’s why we satisfice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegant Solution] Reference

The word "satisfice," coined in.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference