Quotes About Analysis

If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Has it not occurred to you that clinical examination of oneself is yet another obsession? What you dissect has to be dead first – that's the principle of dissection, after all.

You must dismantle your sources, Toc the Younger, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others.

I always tell my clients that they can learn a lot by watching and analyzing other companies that are in crisis, especially competitors. (As that great philosopher Yogi Berra once said, "You can observe a lot by just watching.") For one thing, if a company in your industry group suffers a crisis, could you be next? Figure it out and govern yourself accordingly.

What I've just described is called a system of differential equations. Such equations arise whenever we have rules for speeds depending on current positions.

To shed light on any continuous shape, object, motion, process, or phenomenon—no matter how wild and complicated it may appear—reimagine it as an infinite series of simpler parts, analyze those, and then add the results back together to make sense of the original whole.

Anything that's continuous can be sliced exactly (not just approximately) into infinitely many infinitesimal pieces.

Calculus, like other forms of mathematics, is much more than a language; it's also an incredibly powerful system of reasoning.

In a nutshell, calculus wants to make hard problems simpler.

Once that's done, it solves the original problem for all the tiny parts, which is usually a much easier task than solving the initial giant problem. The remaining challenge at that point is to put all the tiny answers back together again. That tends to be a much harder step, but at least it's not as difficult as the original problem was.

Calculus succeeds by breaking complicated problems down into simpler parts. That strategy, of course, is not unique to calculus. All good problem-solvers know that hard problems become easier when they're split into chunks. The truly radical and distinctive move of calculus is that it takes this divide-and-conquer strategy to its utmost extreme — all the way out to infinity.

we've come to realize that most systems of differential equations are unsolvable, in that same sense; it's impossible to find a formula for the answer. There is, however, one spectacular exception. Linear differential equations are solvable.

There are always two or more sides to an issue, so don't accept any information at face value. Instead, be willing to hear all sides of the story. Take the time to explore both pro and counter–cult sites. Then you can develop your own, informed opinions.

He first considered the forest before exploring the individual trees.

Darwin was constantly rereading his notes, discovering new implications.

Failure when analyzed will provide the building blocks for future successes that will be far greater than the failure itself.

The worst way to release bad news is to bury it in the financial statement footnotes, in the hope that no one will see it. A diligent investor or analyst always reads the footnotes, and will not appreciate having to dig so deep to uncover potentially critical information.

Lease assets. Be sure to institute the lease versus buy analysis that was covered in the last section. A lease may carry a relatively high implicit interest rate, but has the particular advantage of deferring the payment of cash to later periods.

Goal setting is paramount in developing a promotional campaign.

We will see that humans specialize in reasoning about how the world works, about causality.

Reductionism describes the scheme, and it has a long history of successes.