Quotes About Analysis

All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.

Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

When you hear hoof beats, think horses before you think zebras.

They feed on the meat of this remark, gauging its flavor and vitamin content.

the greater involution and deeper patina of her left tooth in comparison to the right, the skeptical cast

The tunnel was the place where vision narrows and the investigator sees only the bird in hand.

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All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

He's an engineer. Wu's the same. They're both technicians. They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround.

Inside, Tim saw a small room bathed in green light. Four technicians in lab coats were peering into double-barreled stereo microscopes, or looking at images on high resolution video screens. The room was filled with yellow stones. The stones were in glass shelves; in cardboard boxes; in large pull-out trays. Each stone was tagged and numbered in black ink.

Begin by quantifying everything related to how you do business. I mean everything.

En su siguiente (o primera) visita a un Starbucks, a una tienda Apple, a una oficina de FedEx o a una empresa similar, rétese a descubrir cómo interactúan los seis elementos de la matriz visual: color, forma, escala, orden, detalle e información.

Understanding industry structure is also essential to effective strategic positioning P. 26

Ask those responsible for each activity to identify how other activities within the company improve or detract from their performance. Second, are there ways to strengthen how activities and groups of activities reinforce one another? Finally, could changes in one activity eliminate the need to perform others?

Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That

why they studied economics, and they'd explain that it was the most practical course of study, even while they spent their time drawing funny little graphs.

You can keep mistakes from happening if you can identify the almost mistakes. This kind of changes how I view everything.

That was the moment I gave up on decision analysis," said Danny. "No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story." As Danny and Lanir wrote, decades later, after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency asked them to describe their experience in decision analysis, the Israeli Foreign Ministry was "indifferent to the specific probabilities.

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of.

He gave a talk in which he argued that the way they measured risk was completely idiotic. They measured risk by volatility: how much a stock or bond happened to have jumped around in the past few years. Real risk was not volatility; real risk was stupid investment decisions.

Because metaphors are vivid and memorable, and because they are not readily subjected to critical analysis, they can have considerable impact on human judgment even when they are inappropriate, useless, or misleading," said Amos. "They replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.