Quotes About Analysis

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

I'm always watching. I'm watching everybody. San Antonio, Houston, Golden State, Washington, Boston, I'm watching everything. And my mind is always going: it's always running, and you're always trying to get an advantage somehow.

I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.

There's an attention to detail that you learn in the video room that, I don't want to say you can't get anywhere else, but it's a huge part of their foundation.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

I like to synthesize; I hate analysis. I don't like to take a subject and break it down into parts; I like to take disparate parts and put them all together and see what happens. I believe the old saw that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Of course, it may also be less. But it's the parts that interest me; it's not the whole.

The contribution of mathematics, and of people, is not computation but intelligence.

I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.

Desi me examina.

Yeah, right. Something Wicked This Way Comes,' Greta says. 'It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.

I do not begin with concepts and put them together to form a thought or judgement; I come by the parts of a thought by analysing the thought.

studying extreme deviations from stated principles

Fine," he said. "Murph, you wanna talk science, don't just tell me you're scared of some ghost. Record the facts, analyze—present your conclusions.

Murph, you wanna talk science, don't just tell me you're scared of some ghost. Record the facts, analyze—present your conclusions.

Right. Isn't that how science works?" Redwing grinned. "If you don't understand, do an experiment.

Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of a centrifuge to separate U-235 from U-238 was proportional to its length and to the fourth power of the peripheral speed of its rotor. Karl

Moe Berg. Until he's finished reading a paper, he considers it 'alive' and refuses to let anyone else touch it. When he's done, it's 'dead' and anybody can read it. Says he wants to integrate everything from various papers, get a picture—every day." "Then

metaphorically, Mr. Winterbourne.

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed.