Quotes About Analysis

interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Oppose Conspiracism: Translate our analysis into the popular language of the masses when engaging in dialogue, work with the masses directly and openly, build ties to the localities in which one operates.

Mike Cabral's task force came to believe that John Orr was responsible for the vast majority of all the arsons they were studying, and by way of unverifiable proof, they pointed to the astounding statistic that showed a 90 percent drop in brush-fire activity since his arrest. In the county foothill area, brush fires had averaged sixty-seven a year clear back to 1981. After his arrest the average had dropped to one per year.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as all hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

Only historians tell you what they thought. Research workers stick to what they did.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

The learning principle is to plunge into the detailed mystery of the micro in order to understand what makes the macro tick. Our obstacle is that we live in an attention-deficit culture.

Whenever there was a concept or learning technique that I related to in a manner too abstract to convey, I forced myself to break it down into the incremental steps with which I got there.

eisegetical;

The average computer user of good faith who seeks regularly to read the news online now has to exercise the type of critical acumen that scholars of literature have always reserved for the analysis of texts: an intense engagement that seeks out secret meanings, hidden biases, hidden agendas. And what's more, our fictional average computer user of good faith who seeks regularly to read the news online has to do so even as the news reads him, or her, and modifies itself accordingly.

Unfettered thinking generates the thousand. Analytical thinking helps us see the one that works.

It's distressing when intellect can't detect its own defects.

Es muy fácil predecir el pasado, tal y como saben todos los economistas, columnistas y sus cuñados, que sólo tienen que añadir un «estaba claro» al titular de ayer.

Toda lectura es interpretación, no en el sentido hermeneútico, sino más bien musical del término.

un diario de referencia que no solo contara los hechos, sino que fuera capaz de explicar sus causas, enmarcarlos en un contexto y elaborar un análisis y una reflexión en torno a ellos.

you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.

I hope with this book to convince you that data are profoundly dumb. Data can tell you that the people who took a medicine recovered faster than those who did not take it, but they can't tell you why. Maybe those who took the medicine did so because they could afford it and would have recovered just as fast without it.

overrate it in the sense that they often control for many more variables than they need to and even for variables that they should not

We're talking tradition here, for heaven's sake. Not literary analysis. Do you consider "Good morning" to be a weather report?

ethnographic

Because that's what you do when something terrible happens. You go over and over every little thing, looking for clues, trying to find a pattern and a way to make sense out of the muddle and hurt.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.