Quotes About Analysis

Consider the horse' They considered it.

You can't be a good economist unless you're also a good psychologist. Or a good engineer without being the right kind of metaphysician.

In the human fugue there are eighteen hundred million parts. The resultant noise means something perhaps to the statistician, nothing to the artist. It is only by considering one or two parts at a time that the artist can understand anything.

Before we analyze charts and look for stocks to buy or sell, let's explore several basic questions: what markets to trade, how to manage risk and why keep a trading journal.

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A funambulist! muttered Isabel. Eddie, moving towards the door, stopped. What's that? Isabel explained. Cat's new boyfriend. A funambulist. One who walks on tightropes. Like all of us, she thought. In the final analysis.

I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with a hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses a complete analysis of all human knowledge, or at least all that is either useful or desirable to be acquainted with. – Abbe Faria

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

stop looking for who's to blame; instead you'll start asking, "What's the system?" The concept of feedback opens up the idea that a system can cause its own behavior.

Once you start listing the elements of a system, there is almost no end to the process. You can divide elements into sub-elements and then sub-sub-elements. Pretty soon you lose sight of the system. As the saying goes, you can't see the forest for the trees.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

The best way to deduce the system's purpose is to watch for a while to see how the system behaves.

Remember—all system diagrams are simplifications of the real world.

Before you disturb the system in any way, watch how it behaves.

Dynamic systems studies usually are not designed to predict what will happen. Rather, they're designed to explore what would happen, if a number of driving factors unfold in a range of different ways.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated. —POUL ANDERSON

most of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of biased, late, or missing information.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so ' reducing it to a simple formula.

We should worry again about the connection between play-starved education and eroded mechanisms for political debate, if worry can lead beyond deadlocks. Too often, academic essays pursue analysis and critique but stop short of speculation about remedies, as if intellectual work excluded an element of creativity. In fact, essays that remain risk-averse miss the potential of the genre to "assay," or try out, ideas.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it.

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it. You invariably do.

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