Quotes About Analysis

In addition to doing your own personal best, you must analyze the situation for risks that are beyond your control.

think critically about what you read and hear. You need to ensure that the knowledge in your portfolio is accurate and unswayed by either vendor or media hype.

Never run on auto-pilot. Constantly be thinking, critiquing your work in real time.

When an estimate turns out wrong, don't just shrug and walk away. Find out why it differed from your guess. Maybe you chose some parameters that didn't match the reality of the problem. Maybe your model was wrong. Whatever the reason, take some time to uncover what happened. If you do, your next estimate will be better.

If you use plain text to create synthetic data to drive system tests, then it is a simple matter to add, update, or modify the test data without having to create any special tools to do so. Similarly, plain text output from regression tests can be trivially analyzed (with diff, for instance) or subjected to more thorough scrutiny with Perl, Python, or some other scripting tool.

The O() notation puts an upper bound on the value of the thing we're measuring (time, memory, and so on).

The risk in thinking "worldviewishly" is that we will start to think that the best way to change culture is to analyze it. We will start worldview academies, host worldview seminars, write worldview books. These may have some real value if they help us understand the horizons that our culture shapes, but they cannot substitute for the creation of real cultural

I will find your books and review with nastiness.

short written or spoken examination of a person's proficiency or knowledge:

She could understand and analyze and predict the exact outcome of her crazy, self-destructive behavior and then go ahead and do it anyway.

America has already taken in more than one-quarter of Mexico's entire population, according to the Pew Research Center's analysis of census data.

Does any piece of writing speak for itself? Or do we impose certain values and judgements on that text when interpreting it?

there is no impediment to our studying subjective (i.e., first-person) facts "objectively.

I would argue that no approach to a text is without method—even what you would call literalism and what I call "vacuous literalism." (In

I remember him saying over and over again: go in and check our competition. Check everyone who is our competition. And don't look for the bad. Look for the good. If you get one good idea, that's one more than you went into the store with, and we must try to incorporate it into our company. We're really not concerned with what they're doing wrong, we're concerned with what they're doing right, and everyone is doing something right.

people are no longer interested in analysis. They all prefer catharsis now. They all prefer to say that they are helpless and can't change other people, i.e. the world. Marxism has been replaced by postmodernism. Psychoanalysis has been replaced by twelve-step programs. It was the end of the content.

Where Annie came from, one assumed the worst and worked backwards from there.

Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena.

Skeptics," he said, "suffer from the skeptics' disease— the problem of being right too often.

The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.

the accuracy of our opinions is deeply influenced by our ability to imagine alternate explanations for events.

If all you know is how many times someone hit a target, it is loserthink to judge how accurate they are. You also need to know how many times they missed.

it helps to see the world as math and not magic.

One might say that ambiguity is the diet of literary studies.