Quotes About Analysis

The analysis object model consists of entity, boundary, and control objects [Jacobson et al., 1999]. Entity objects represent the persistent information tracked by the system. Boundary objects represent the interactions between the actors and the system. Control objects are in charge of realizing use cases.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

I lost the power of attending to impressions per se, and always abstracted from them and sought the scientific and intellectual and abstract that lay behind them, so that it wouldn't have occurred to me

He was recommended to the "Caliph" Abu Yaqub Yusuf as a man capable of making an analysis of the works of Aristotle. (It seems, however, that he did not know Greek.) This ruler took him into favour; in 1184 he made him his physician, but unfortunately the patient died two years later.

Must think for thyself instead of merely taking scraps from different people - that is what makes thy opinions so disjointed, because thee takes different opinions from different people, thinking the two subjects independent - but no two subjects are really independent

These two sentences suffice to show, as I shall try to prove, that Bergson does not know what number is, and has himself no clear idea of it.

I have not found in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations anything that seemed to me interesting and I do not understand why a whole school finds important wisdom in its pages.

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

At the risk of oversimplification, maybe abiding doesn't require deep analysis. Perhaps all I need to ask myself at the moment is whether or not I am still tender. Still flexible. At times I am neither. The branch that snaps easily is either dead or stuck in a long-past winter.

One might argue that proper understanding of any social situation would require game-theoretic analysis.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

As presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have recognized, the real question is whether regulations, whether new or old, are justified. That requires a careful analysis of their costs and their benefits.

Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

You've got to do the research. You've got to understand the market place, know your competitors.

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

I'm big on research.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.