Quotes About Analysis

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

We do not want to be like the scientist who takes his umbrella with him to go study the rain.

History is so indifferently rich that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

Metadata, in its most informal but most prevalent definition, is "data about data.

We, on both sides, wrongly imagine that empathy with the "other" side brings an end to clearheaded analysis when, in truth, it's on the other side of that bridge that the most important analysis can begin.

One study had four doctors interpret fifty different tracings (the printouts generated by the monitor). The four concurred only 22 percent of the time.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help. My own analysis using 2005 survey data from Syracuse University shows that about 90 percent of conservatives agree that "While people may begin with different opportunities, hard work and perseverance can usually overcome those disadvantages." Liberals — even upper-income liberals — are a third less likely to say this.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

You know my methods, Watson.

I like to figure out the fight like a puzzle when I'm in the fight.

I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.

I consider that part of my job as a pro: to know who you're up against and how the attacking players play, what kind of characteristics they have, their qualities, how they move, their preferred foot.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

Entire populations of market strategists, fund managers, and economists are employed to try and intuit for clients which securities to bet on for the best possible return each year - or quarter.

Matthew Stafford, I think he's straight. I don't think he the best quarterback out there. But he do what he gotta do.

Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

When you play quarterback in the NFL, you're going to get scrutinized.

That's what we do as a nation, we're all Monday morning quarterbacks.

I want to know what everyone is doing on every play, all the way from protection to tailback to progressions of quarterbacks.

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.