Quotes About Quantification

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

How long was a year anyway? Fifty-two weeks? Three hundred and sixty-five days? Eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours?

Lomborg and his followers make the philosophical error of thinking that things that can't be counted don't count.

the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

You can't manage what you can't measure.