Quotes About Measurement

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead

It's easy to measure what you can count, but what counts is not easy to measure.

Täydellisyys mitataan puutteilla. Joka ei epäonnistu usein, se ei onnistu koskaan.

I'm going to mark your cognition level at fifty-five percent." "Fuck you." "Let's make that sixty percent.")

The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in your system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!

The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.

Does design pay off? The Design Management Institute partnered with Motiv Strategies to measure the return on design investment where it counts—in stock values. Over a 10-year period, a $10,000 investment in design-centric companies would have yielded returns 228 percent greater than the same investment in the S&P 500. And this is only an average.

Temos de pensar melhor acerca do que é o poder, para que serve e como é medido. Por outras palavras, se as mulheres não são encaradas como estando completamente dentro das estruturas de poder, decerto é o poder que tem de ser redefinido e não as mulheres?

Half of the people in the world are below average.

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.

It is out first love that we will use to gauge all others.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

true productivity has to be measured relative to the outcomes of the overall system, not just the software. Just producing a lot of lines of code or function points is irrelevant; the real question is, How much improvement in customer outcomes has the development team generated?

You measure system capability; you do not prescribe it.

the critical factor in motivation is not measurement,8 but empowerment: moving decisions to the lowest possible level in an organization while developing the capacity of those people to make decisions wisely.

Focusing exclusively on local measurements has a tendency to inhibit collaboration beyond the area being measured, because there is no reward for it.

and so we persist in using suboptimized measurements out of superstition and habit.

When you try to measure performance, particularly the performance of knowledge workers, you're positively courting dysfunction.

The purpose of process standards is to act as a baseline for continuous improvement.

I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.

The many-worlds theory basically maintains that the reason quantum mechanics seems so strange is because we have access to only one of an infinite number of worlds. From our narrow perspective, the output of certain measurements (like that of the double-slit experiment) seems random and probabilistic, but that is an artifact of the fact that, literally, we don't have the full picture.

When really success isn't something you measure, and life isn't a race you can win. It's all . . . bollocks, actually . . .

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

but human beings measure risk and privation within the compass of their personal knowledge.