Quotes About Measurement

Die Vermessung der Intelligenz verschiedener Menschen, mit hausbackenen oder statistisch geschliffenen Methoden, irritiert naturgemäß breite Bevölkerungsschichten.

To fear an inner life, she thought, was the greatest foolishness. It was like fearing a breath of air. Why did people find it harder to admit to a universe within than without? Why trust, for a moment, one's own absurd measurement of either?

training equals testing, and testing equals training.

The diameters of nuclei range from 0.8 femtometers for hydrogen to 15 femtometers for uranium, where 1 femtometer equals 10-15 meter. The diameter of the hydrogen atom is about 0.11 nanometer, while that of the uranium atom is 0.35 nanometer, where 1 nanometer equals 10-9 meter. So, roughly speaking, the nucleus of the atom is a million times smaller than the atom itself. Matter is, indeed, mostly empty space.

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

What gets measured gets managed.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

Good marketers measure.

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second

much more focus on risk management, rather than risk measurement. Understanding how to reduce risk before the fact is much more productive than identifying it afterward.

plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.

Measuring requires, first and foremost, analytical ability. But it also demands that measurement be used to make self-control possible, rather than abused to control people from the outside and above—that is, to dominate them.

Nothing can remain immense if it can be measured.

it is one thing to have a qualitative impression of something, and a very different thing to have a quantitative estimate of the same thing, based on cold, hard numbers. Science thrives on numbers.

Here is the answer to Einstein's question about the moon. Yes, it is there when no one observes it – because the environment is already, and without cease, 'measuring' it. All of the photons of sunlight that bounce off the moon are agents of decoherence, and more than adequate to fix its position in space and give it a sharp outline. The universe is always looking.

We need to imagine as well as measure.

The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon.