Quotes About Analysis

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

This last point is a request to the English-speaking reader. In France, certain half-witted 'commentators' persist in labelling me a 'structuralist'. I have been unable to get it into their tiny minds that I have used none of the methods, concepts, or key terms that characterize structural analysis. I should be grateful if a more serious public would free me from a connection that certainly does me honour, but that I have not deserved.

la atención se ha desplazado, por el contrario, de las vastas unidades que se describían como "épocas" o "siglos", hacia fenómenos de ruptura.

In political thought and analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king... we must construct an analytics of power that no longer takes law as a model and a code.

Mais surtout, alors qu'en 1955 Foucault confrontait finalement des « expériences de pensée », en 1966-1968 la terminologie sera celle des « discours » : ce sont les « mutations du discours philosophique » qui seront étudiées.

Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.

when a person tells a lie, he simultaneously has to know the truth, concoct the lie, and rapidly analyze the consistency of this lie with previously known facts.

By the year 2020 or 2030, all this will finally culminate in personalized DNA codes. Gilbert claims, "You'll be able to go to a drugstore and get your own DNA sequence on a CD, which you can then analyze at home on your Macintosh.

You can always spot the scientist at a strip club, because he is the only one examining the audience.

Max Planck once remarked, "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of Nature. And it is because in the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.

El reconocimiento de patrones, como ya hemos visto, es uno de los principales obstáculos para la inteligencia artificial.

In 2017, the Pentagon announced a $65 million grant to develop a tiny, advanced chip that can analyze a million human neurons as the brain communicates with a computer and forms memories.

No se trata de ir a la caza y captura de desperdicio en el proceso. El paso por las diferentes etapas de este análisis de proceso tiene el propósito de obligarle a examinar y hacer frente a los detalles de un proceso, para que así pueda definir cómo debería operar un proceso. Una vez que disponga de un estado objetivo, entonces podrá esforzarse en avanzar hacia el mismo, hacer las cinco preguntas e identificar aquello en lo que tiene que trabajar.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

What are smart people for if not to untangle tangled things?

I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived according to the head, not the heart. I consider and analyze my personal passions and actions with a strict curiosity, but without sympathy. There are two people within me: one who lives in the full sense of the word, and the other who reasons and judges him.

When we study, discuss, analyze a reality, we analyze it as it appears in our mind, in our memory. We know reality only in the past tense. We do not know it as it is in the present, in the moment when it's happening, when it is. The present moment is unlike the memory of it. Remembering is not the negative of forgetting. Remembering is a form of forgetting. [...] We die without knowing what we have lived.

Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka.

Our century is the only one in which historic dates have taken such a voracious grip on every single person's life. Irena's existence in France cannot be understood without first analyzing the dates.

Se estudamos, discutimos, analisamos uma realidade, analisamo-la tal como aparece no nosso espírito, na nossa memória. Só conhecemos a realidade no tempo passado. Não a conhecemos tal como é no momento presente, no momento em que ela se passa, em que ela é. Ora o momento presente não se assemelha à sua recordação. A recordação não é a negação do esquecimento. A recordação é uma forma de esquecimento.

Sloppy writing reflects sloppy thinking.

I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.