Quotes About Analysis

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I'll never master that.

You must determine the root cause of your problem, and just like running a car without the oil, you must ask yourself not what is happening, but what is missing.

They say all people who lived under Hitler were bad because they fought the war with him. That is wrong. We can't say all people were bad. We must find out why they were with him. If you want to make something better, you must know the reasons why it was wrong and what has happened. My

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side

When New York City created a special Rape Analysis Squad commanded by police- women, the female police officers found that only 2 percent of all rape complaints were false—about the same false-report rate that is usual for other kinds of felonies. (a a talk given by Judge Lawrence H. Cooke before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York)

it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled with a version of my problem and tried to make sense of her story in her own language.

One of Karen's favorite authors...wrote a book that, once Karen had read it, enabled her to analyze her feeling-states as clearly as if they were passing through prisms, that didn't just make them visible but broke them down into all their components. Once you can do that, it's a challenge to not view other people as blind.

I was a woman and younger. I started spending a lot of time in the mall doing a lot of qualitative research and really watching what consumers were doing. Were they gravitating towards the sales racks, or were they looking at the new fashions? Were they there to shop, or were they there to socialize?

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.

My college coach was a baseball guy. So why is no one questioning why a baseball player is coaching or analyzing softball when the reverse happens?

As a general rule, the less time a bookmaker has to set his odds the softer the odds are going to be.

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

Do your analysis of energy costs. Either it comes from windmills and solar or things like nuclear and shale gas. You have to think about how you provide competitive energy for U.K. Ltd.

It's never a good thing when an opponent has a solid read on you pre-flop.

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.