Quotes About Analysis

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11 guys are doing on their side of the ball, how it all fits together. It's easy for them.

No matter how self-aware you are, memoir wrenches at your insides precisely because it makes you battle with your very self—your neat analyses and tidy excuses.

You don't have to step on a body to carry the smells of death with you on your shoes. For reasons we have just seen, the soil around a corpse is sodden with the liquids of human decay. By analyzing the chemicals in this soil, people like Arpad can tell if a body has been moved from where it decayed. If the unique volatile fatty acids and compounds of human decay aren't there, the body didn't decompose there.

You are perhaps wondering, as I did, why they don't use crash test dummies. This is the other side of the equation. A dummy can tell you how much force a crash is unleashing on various dummy body parts, but without knowing how much of a blow a real body part can take, the information is useless.

What sets a professional nose apart from an everyday nose is not so much its sensitivity to the many aromas in a food or drink, but the ability to tease them apart and identify them.

Putin and his colleagues were reduced mainly to collecting press clippings, thus contributing to the growing mountains of useless information produced by the KGB.

ability to read people based

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim

at this point, the analysis of gene expression in the brain isn't prectical because current (and foreseeable)techniques require that we analyze a piece of brain tissue. Most people find that unpleasant.

Are you a doctor?" Li said. "I'm better than that. I'm a vet. Vets do everything: brain surgery, heart surgery, lab analysis, dislocations –

The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're decoding

My project . . . is solving the case." "Solving it?" Charles said, cocking his head. "Doing a report on it?" "No," she said. "I mean . . . figuring out what happened." Charles removed his glasses, folded them, and leaned back in his chair. "That's a fairly tall order

Jim, I studied engineering in college. When I see things, I see them.

Opinion without a rational process.

Its the critic's job to interpret the artist, even to the artist himself.

There's a way to solve every dilemma of that kind, Mr. Rearden. Check your premises.

There are no contradictions. When you think you found one. Check your premises.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." ? Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Everyone has gone postmodern. They can't even read the text in the original—they're so dependent on some pseudo-philosopher to tell them what it says.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.