Quotes About Metric

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

The IPCC report explains that every single metric ton of carbon dioxide we prevent from entering the atmosphere lessens the severity of the impacts we bake into the system. Our assessment meticulously describes how every fraction of a degree of warming matters—the scale and severity of impacts begin to compound and cascade with higher levels of warming.

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?

There should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit variety, but of what would that metric consist? How about increments of remorse?

We believe that an emerging metric for HR will be ROI (meaning return on intangibles) because HR professionals position their organization with their investors.

Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.

Life cannot be measured by summary statistics, such as the money accumulated in the banks, or the shares acquired in the stock market, or the number of real estates owned etc. In my view, the only valuable metric that would quantify your life most accurately is the number of lives you were able to help selflessly, and influence most positively. The true purpose of human life is very noble IMHO....always above and beyond mere metrics of materialistic matters.

One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business.

The most characteristic feature of metric fixation is the aspiration to replace judgment based on experience with standardized measurement.

But in many cases, the extension of standardized measurement may be of diminishing utility, or even counterproductive—sliding from sensible solutions to metric madness.

Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

The fact is, there's no single magic number that defines profitability for a game.

The new metric worldwide would raise the figure for other nations as well, but the contribution of education, R&D, and consumer durables to total savings "is higher in the United States than in most other countries, except perhaps for a few Nordic countries."*

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Actually, in my advanced, high-falutin' frontier economics, I often work with what I define as 'money metric utility,' and I ask people, 'Do you really want that? What are you willing to pay for that?'

It is deeply ironic that while America was hemming and hawing over whether to go metric on account of its shrinking place in world trade, a U.S. innovation sized in customary feet was becoming the most important measure of capacity ever to hit the global market.

By virtually every metric, the liberal international order has made the world healthier, wealthier, wiser, more secure and more tolerant than it has ever been.

some 365 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere.

The normal metric of measuring progress has actually been the rate of growth, OK? It's not a wrong metric, but it's not a full metric.

We should redefine the metric for effective lending, viz., prioritise loans to enterprises, which will generate more employment.

The trap is that even if you find a good metric that avoids the trap IBM fell into, people will naturally, even subconsciously, work to game the metric.

I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.

For a report to be considered actionable, it must demonstrate clear cause and effect. Otherwise, it is a vanity metric. The reports that Grockit's team began to use to judge their learning milestones made it extremely clear what actions would be necessary to replicate the results.