Quotes About Analysis

Our inability to identify rotten fruit on the branches means that we are especially unable to identify a problem at the root.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Algoritmización: Se refiere al proceso de obtener algoritmos a partir de la información cruda . Es un mecanismo de concentración de datos y aumento de la densidad informacional.

Figuring out the purpose of why you want to pursue a mission can be daunting, but analyzing the three key components of a need, the skills you have, and what you love to do, can help isolate your ultimate reason for why you are doing what you are doing. In my case, those concentric topics merged together to create isolate my purpose: to enhance eye care through technological innovation.

Predictions about complex systems, in other words, are highly subject to the law of diminishing returns: The first pieces of information help a lot, but very quickly you exhaust whatever potential for improvement exists.

In order to be able to infer that "A causes B," we need to be able to run the experiment many times.

if we want to understand why people do what they do, we must understand the incentives that they face, and hence their preference for one outcome versus another. When someone does something that seems strange or puzzling to us, rather than writing them off as crazy or irrational, we should instead seek to analyze their situation in hopes of finding a rational incentive.

Complex systems are not really random in the same way that a coin toss is random, but in practice it's extremely difficult to tell the difference.

If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise.

being critical is more than just doing critique, as social change that leads to equity also requires informing policy and practice through advocacy and activism

Become an expert on your biggest competitor—the status quo.

Contrary to popular belief," he began, "every normal person is both male and female in some degree." What he called "erotic emotions" are felt by all people, toward virtually all other people. The problem is that "people not trained to an analytical point of view fail to consider these more complex expressions of erotic feeling," and tend to regard them as abnormal.

The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable." -Professor Charles Homer Haskins

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence.

Vietnamese men, women, and children were dying, starving, being shot, bombed, burned, and napalmed. American soldiers were being shipped home in boxes, coffins, and bags. And the U.S. government was paying an Upper West Side Freudian analyst to explain that the Vietnamese, as a people, had Oedipal issues.

Don't miss the heart issues when dealing with the surface problems!

do." You must continuously analyze and ask yourself: What is my business? What is my mission? What is my purpose? As you set a valid mission and purpose in place, you will discover that the picture of what you are trying to accomplish becomes crystal clear and you eliminate all confusion.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.