Quotes About Quantification

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When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. —WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN

Perhaps, like bureaucracies everywhere, government officials in Singapore are uncomfortable with groups who appeal successfully to the public's sense of idealism, and whose work cannot be easily quantified in economic terms. Officials can handle individuals and organisations who are in it for the money, but seem not to know how to deal with people who seek and promote more intangible and selfless rewards.

REMEMBER: it is impossible to evaluate, or even understand, anything that you cannot measure." 80

If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.

In place of the scale, I use DEXA scans, a BodyMetrix home ultrasound device, or

I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.

As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

Some is not a number; soon is not a time. Here's the number: 100,000. Here's the time: June 14, 2006—9 a.m.

Make the baskets as small as you can while retaining the wholeness of whole numbers. If 2/3rds or .67 or 67% of people didn't like the new flavor, then make them feel like people in a room. "2 out of 3 people thought cheesy marshmallow was "disgusting." Going up to 67 out of 100 would dilute understanding.

It's a simple matter of mathematics.

Anything you need to quantify can be measured in some way that is superior to not measuring it at all.

The quantification of nature, which led to its explication in terms of mathematical structures, separated reality from all inherent ends and, consequently, separated the true from the good, science from ethics.

How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

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

Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding.

At a time in which the demand for productivity and the measuring of outputs has increased in the university—indeed, everywhere—it is important to acknowledge how much of what is crucial in the work that matters to us, no matter what our field, can neither be quantified nor accelerated.

seems that our entire species has been totally preoccupied with measuring everything possible, and even of finding subtle and invisible things to take "the measure of." Measuring activity seems both a necessary and a good

[I] asked people to quantify themselves on a scale of one to 100 percent gay, and I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me. People didn't know what to do, because they had never been presented with the option before.

Os valores institucionalizados que a escola inculca são valores quantificados. A escola inicia os jovens num mundo onde tudo pode ser medido, inclusive a imaginação e o próprio homem. Mas o crescimento pessoal não é coisa mensurável.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

We are the sum total of our data, I told her, just as we are the sum total of our chemical impulses. I

No hay que confundir el sentido del número con la facultad de contar. Únicamente la inteligencia humana puede alcanzar un grado de abstracción capaz de permitir el acto de contar, aunque el sentido del número está presente en muchos animales.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?