Quotes About Analysis

It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those "impossible" professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing-up of children and the government of nations.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Before the problem of the creative writer, analysis must lay down its arms.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

se na sociedade capitalista a "feminilidade" foi construída como uma função-trabalho que oculta a produção da força de trabalho sob o disfarce de um destino biológico, a história das mulheres é a história das classes, [...] "mulher" é uma categoria de análise legítima, e as atividades associadas à reprodução seguem sendo um terreno de luta fundamental para as mulheres.

Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

To process thoughts well is a matter of being able to avoid confusion, detect ambiguities, keep things in mind one at a time, make reliable arguments, become aware of alternatives, and so on.

Apparently the Germans had a database of 13,000 kicks.

His doubts recall Benford's Law, a theory about the frequency with which digits will appear in data. One implication of this law is that datasets with lots of zeroes at the end often turn out to be fraudulent.

The problem, says Anderson, is that managers tend to remember the most memorable events of a match rather than the most important ones.

125.00% Mean     149.17% Standard Deviation     43.47%

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

the enemy of security: repetition leads to patterns, and cryptanalysts thrive on patterns.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

She fascinated me almost as much as he did, because, after all, she was his beloved, and I studied her carefully for clues to her success.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.