Quotes About Analysis

Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.

In the words of Abraham Maslow, "He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail." This is another factor that affects the "young lady/old lady" perception difference. Right brain and left brain people tend to look at things in different ways.

Management is the breaking down, the analysis, the sequencing, the specific application, the time-bound left-brain aspect of effective self-government. My own maxim of personal effectiveness is this: Manage from the left; lead from the right.

Although it's risky and hard, seek first to understand, or diagnose before you prescribe, is a correct principle manifest in many areas of life. It's the mark of all true professionals. It's critical for the optometrist, it's critical for the physician. You wouldn't have any confidence in a doctor's prescription unless you had confidence in the diagnosis.

mission statement is not something you write overnight. It takes deep introspection, careful analysis, thoughtful expression, and often many rewrites to produce it in final form.

We have such a tendency to rush in, to fix things up with good advice. But we often fail to take the time to diagnose, to really, deeply understand the problem first.

The fact that life arose early here gives us little confidence in the belief that life must be common elsewhere. It's important to emphasize the following point: the analysis doesn't show that life is rare. "Life is common" remains our best guess position; it's just that we can't be confident of the position.

actuar como "abogado del diablo". Este método es ideal para comprobar la fortaleza de nuestro razonamiento e identificar sus principales debilidades.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Voltaire said that no problem could withstand the assault of sustained thinking. And he was right.

If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money. How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving out Banks, Debt, and Money is a bit to me like an ornithologist trying to work out how a bird flies whilst ignoring that the bird has wings...

Demonstrate ROI. In this approach, you gather and analyze data to prove that a usability change you've made resulted in cost savings or additional revenue ("Changing the label on this button increased sales by 0.25%"). There's an excellent book about it: Cost-justifying Usability: An Update for the Internet Age, edited by Randolph Bias and Deborah Mayhew.

You're not interested in what it takes to uncover most of the problems; you only care about what it takes to uncover as many problems as you can fix.

Or is it that I think too much?

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.

The most challenging part of programming is conceptualizing the problem, and many errors in programming are conceptual errors. Because

Eighty percent of the errors are found in 20 percent of a project's classes or routines

Design Is a Wicked Problem Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber defined a wicked problem as one that could be clearly defined only by solving it, or by solving part of it (1973). This paradox implies, essentially, that you have to solve the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.

For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.

Since the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter, then no subject, however offbeat, need be beyond its reach.

Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

It's much better to ask small questions than big ones.