Quotes About Measurement

Han måtte rehabilitere seg ved et bedrag; når han lot gjelde at han var som andre, at han var kommensurabel, så måtte jo stakkaren bruke sin egen målestokk og overtale seg til å tro på den. Han hadde kanskje sin lille lykke ved dette, han hadde iallfall ingen annen. Kunst altsammen altså? Kunst altsammen. Men intet dårlig kunstverk.

I do not know, my friend. It seems wrong somehow that the success of a race be measured by its ability to do violence.

Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast salt and hesitation.

A glimpse into the depth of other people's misfortunes makes us cling to the hope that suffering is measurable. There are more sorrowful sorrows, more despondent despondencies. When we recognize another's suffering, we cannot avoid confronting our own, from which we escape to the thought of measurability. Well, at least, we emphasize. Our capacity to console extends only to what we can do to console ourselves.

A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspects of reality: statistics.

Such questionnaires are used in order to correlate happiness with various objective factors. One

In the Middle Ages art was governed by objective yardsticks.

We typically think of stress as being a risk factor for disease," said Cole. "And it is, somewhat. But if you actually measure stress, using our best available instruments, it can't hold a candle to social isolation. Social isolation is the best-established, most robust social or psychological risk factor for disease out there. Nothing can compete.

Another reason numbers should not drive us is that antisemitism is a worldview, a conspiracy theory. It therefore cannot simply be measured by the number of recorded antisemitic acts or by the number of people being categorized as antisemites.

Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. Atheism is no experience only measurement.

Time is just quantified eternity.

Countless acts of observation give substance and reality to what would otherwise be ghosts of existence. This solves the so-called "measurement problem" of

there is actually no fixed spot in the universe for measuring time.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?

that was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble.

With the tower, we knew none of these things. We could not intuit its full outline. We had no sense of its purpose. And now that we had begun to descend into it, the tower still failed to reveal any hint of these things. The psychologist might recite the measurements of the "top" of the tower, but those numbers meant nothing, had no wider context. Without context, clinging to those numbers was a form of madness.