Quotes About Measurement

Megahertz: This is really, really big hertz.

Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

Fuzzy thinking can never be proven wrong. And only when we are proven wrong so clearly that we can no longer deny it to ourselves will we adjust our mental models of the world—producing a clearer picture of reality. Forecast, measure, revise: it is the surest path to seeing better.

Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not. ~ Protagoras

The Strand proudly proclaims itself as home to eighteen miles of books. I have no idea how this is calculated. Does one stack all the books on top of each other to get the eighteen miles? Or do you put them end to end, to create a bridge between Manhattan and, say, Short Hills, New Jersey, eighteen miles away? Were there eighteen miles of shelves? No one knew. We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust? Whatever

Raising kids isn't carpentry, he said Forget measuring twice and cutting once, You measure over and over everyday

The concepts of physics-energy, force, mass, number-are as mysterious as the word God. But in physics, even though in many ways we do not know what physical reality is, we nevertheless devise or affirm parameters that permit us to measure regularity or to formulate possible laws in regard to the functioning of physical reality. Such an operation is not possible in regard to God. There are no adequate parameters that would permit us to speak of the functioning of that reality we call God.

wonder sometimes why those who theorize about the human mind can so easily believe in the existence of things they cannot see or measure, or in any meaningful way confirm as real—such as the id, the ego, the unconscious I—but nevertheless dismiss as superstitious those who believe the body has a soul. The woman brought the horse to a halt

Watches and clocks measure our perception of time, not time itself.

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

My father always said that was the difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

I estimated the ambient humidity at roughly a thousand percent, but tipped a little of my sweetened coffee into the saucer and blew on it nonetheless.

difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

he'd added more than twenty stones to each

Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

Some athletes aren't small, they're just short.

I don't know how we judge performance when you have 13 pass attempts to the other guy's 40.

I've got an odometer on my voice that has out-odometered an odometer on an automobile.

This property of reversibility in dynamics leads, however, to a difficulty whose full significance was realized only with the introduction of quantum mechanics. Manipulation and measurement are essentially irreversible. Active science is thus, by definition, extraneous to the idealized, reversible world it is describing.

the tides are the moon and sea keeping their own promises, and that's that. A promise involves a thing that can't be measured, which is trust and I can't speak for rain and the sea and moon, but I can ask why people keep their promises, and maybe the answer in the end is love.

This kind of measuring DOWN to an average mean, clearly obliterates recognition of ultra- and super-sensitivities, the realization of which might actually be of extreme importance and relevance.