Quotes About Analysis

You have to imagine a world in which there's this abundance of data, with all of these connected devices generating tons and tons of data. And you're able to reason over the data with new computer science and make your product and service better. What does your business look like then? That's the question every CEO should be asking.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I now believe Malcolm Turnbull is worse than Tony Abbott.

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

Over the years, I've learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it's a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.

I'll watch tape on my opponents. I'll watch a little bit of tape. I don't like to invest too much time on tape. Sometimes you get too focused on your opponent instead of yourself. I'd rather watch my own training and my own sparring sessions and develop from there.

You can look at stats as much as you want - and we do - but you can have too much of it. You can spend too much time looking at computers rather than looking at the real thing which is out there on the pitch. I still think that being a good judge of players is the most important thing.

Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.

When I talk to film students, I always say, 'Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes,' because that's such a great learning tool.

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome.

It's an important tool to focus where we're excavating. It gives us a much bigger perspective on archaeological sites. We have to think bigger, and that's what the satellites allow us to do.

A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.

I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could be used as a tool to analyze and understand the modern world.

A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research.

I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.