Quotes About Analysis

As these things change, if we were to rerun the cost-benefit analysis, the output would surely be different. But we don't rerun it.

Resulting is the tendency to look at whether a result was good or bad to figure out whether a decision was good or bad.

In the short-term, for any single decision, there is only a loose relationship between the quality of the decision and the quality of the outcome. The two are correlated, but the relationship can take a long time to play out.

Backcasting and premortems complement each other. Backcasting imagines a positive future; a premortem imagines a negative future. We can't create a complete picture without representing both the positive space and the negative space. Backcasting reveals the positive space. Premortems reveal the negative space. Backcasting is the cheerleader; a premortem is the heckler in the audience.

Il y avait d'un côté la souffrance, de l'autre la pensée incapable de s'exercer sur autre chose que le constat et l'analyse de cette souffrance.

Je note ces choses pour comparer avec ce qui précède et suivra, ce dont je ne suis jamais sûre.)

I don't even enjoy football, at least professional football, anymore because I'm breaking the game down constantly. You're sitting there watching the plays, and you're talking mental reps on what would I have done here against this coverage or this leverage, this, that. It is what it is.

I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.

We can watch every time someone looks at a profile. Do they choose to send that person a message? We can look at every message that's sent, and we can determine, was that message replied to or not.

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

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

Before coming to Congress, I worked as a computer programmer and a systems analyst.

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

Everyone is using the same programs, everyone is looking at the same opening ideas. I wouldn't say everyone is necessarily the same in terms of talent or ability, but when you're able to prepare games that go so deep that you don't have to think, really, it balances out the field.

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

In a mature democracy any proposed policy should be subjected to a close analysis of its likely benefits and costs.

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.

We're always trying to evolve and find more efficient ways, more fluent ways to evaluate our players, evaluate our opponent and evaluate our prospects.

We don't prognosticate macroeconomic factors, we're looking at our companies from a bottom-up perspective on their long-run prospects of returning.