Quotes About Evaluation

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it.

Accountability ought to mean being held responsible for one's actions. But by a sort of linguistic sleight of hand, accountability has come to mean demonstrating success through standardized measurement, as if only that which can be counted really counts.

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

But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know. The costs of measuring may be greater than the benefits.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."7) Most organizations have multiple purposes, and that which is measured and rewarded tends to become the focus of attention, at the expense of other essential goals. Similarly, many jobs have multiple facets, and measuring only a few aspects creates incentives to neglect the rest.

Any measure used for control is unreliable."10 To put it another way, anything that can be measured and rewarded will be gamed.

Measuring the most easily measurable. There is a natural human tendency to try to simplify problems by focusing on the most easily measureable elements.1 But what is most easily measured is rarely what is most important, indeed sometimes not important at all. That is the first source of metric dysfunction.

So organizations measure what they've spent, rather than what they produce, or they measure process rather than product.

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

All a person needs to do is observe what the market is telling him and evaluate it.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

As a rule, when we can't find even one good quality in a person, we are prejudiced, and by that rule I must admit my prejudice.

Aga nii see inimene on: hindab ainult seda, millest ilma jääb.

It was the judgment of a skilled and experienced man, and although others might have acted differently and perhaps more successfully he ought not, in my opinion, to be blamed." Mersey found Cunard's

An animal who gets his feeling of worth symbolically has to minutely compare himself to those around him, to make sure he doesn't come off second-best.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

He lived in Udine and came out in this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly.

I have tried to write by the old rule that how good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.