Quotes About Analysis

When times are good, there is budget available for increased research on secondary products or customers.

Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.

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careful analysis like that done by David's architect can be laborious and take ages, but if it is too narrowly focused, it won't reveal fundamental flaws in the plan or gaps, much less correct them. And by its impressive detail, it may give the false idea that the overall plan is stronger than it is, like a beautiful facade with no structure behind it. Governments and bureaucratic corporations are good at churning out this sort of analysis.

When delivery fails, efforts to figure out why tend to focus exclusively on delivery. That's understandable, but it's a mistake, because the root cause of why delivery fails often lies outside delivery, in forecasting, years before delivery was even begun.

The critical next step is to stop thinking of black swans the way most people do. They are not bolt-from-the-blue freak accidents that are impossible to understand or prevent. They can be studied. And mitigated.

We would add to this that regarding cost overruns there is no indication that the calamity identified by the Major Projects Association is limited to the public sector. Private sector cost overruns are also common.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

The major contradiction in Suzuki's position, one of which he was acutely aware, is that he negated in actual practice what he advocated in theory, namely, that Zen "is a direct method, for it refuses to resort to verbal explanation or logical analysis, or to ritualism" (Ibid. 3:318).

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

I am always studying character. Everyone I meet is a new study.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

That is one reason for thinking hard—in order to think better. And the harder you think, the more will your thinking instrument improve.

As a number of scientists have noted, research on the human brain is complicated by the fact that the brain is struggling to understand itself. This three-pound organ is perhaps the only bit of matter in the universe—at least as far as we know—that is observing itself, wondering about itself, trying to analyze itself, and attempting to gain better control of its own capabilities.

including one entitled Criminal Investigative Failures. Having read the Chronicle article and seen the KXAN-TV broadcast, Rossmo

For study of the good and the bad in woman two women are a needless expense.

In the last analysis, ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

Fatal Vision was a very successful book that a lot of people like, but the problem with it is that you could edit out 75% of the book without losing a single fact or insight.

Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?