Quotes About Analysis

Ingmar Bergman said, "Imagine I throw a spear into the dark. That is my intuition. Then I have to send an expedition into the jungle to find the spear. That is my intellect.

Newspaper reporters would now have to dig more deeply into more areas and to inform the public more thoroughly; they could no longer merely report all the facts, but they would often have to interpret the meaning behind these facts. The trick was to do this without editorializing.

I'm not. I just think you might be reading too much into a musical selection.

Sophie wondered when was she going to learn that lots of things seem like a good idea but a small amount of analysis might uncover that such seemingly good ideas are, in fact, intrinsically faulty.

As far as I was concerned, I wrote songs; chords and beats and lyrics, verses. and bridges and hooks. But then, as we got bigger, people began to dissect the songs, like a frog from biology class until there was nothing left but guts- tiny parts, so much less than the sum.

But then I go and look at the actual notes and

Those who cannot understand what they've read should probably reread it.

Misunderstanding literary form can result in misunderstanding Scripture.

Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he'll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he'll say it looks good.

In Operations, many of our data sets have what we call 'chi squared' distribution. Using

Patty thinks for a moment, "It's strange. Even though we have so much data on projects, changes, and tickets, we've never organized and linked them all together this way before.

when something does go wrong, we conduct blameless post-mortems, not to punish anyone, but to better understand what caused the accident and how to prevent it. This

Up-front analysis helps us identify the smallest possible piece of work that will usefully achieve a business outcome using

I'm pretty sure we don't do any sort of analysis of capacity and demand before we accept work. Which means we're always scrambling, having to take shortcuts, which means more fragile applications in production.

We are clueless about what our customers want! We have too much product that will never sell and never enough of the ones that do.

we can only win by innovating and understanding our customers, which we can only do by mastering data.

As part of the First Way, you must gain a true understanding of the business system that it operates in.

This process of applying stress to increase resilience was named antifragility by author and risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

He said he thought it was important to think through problems clearly, and for him, writing things down enforced a logical rigor that he thought was very important for leaders to have.

Complex work is managed so that problems in design and operations are revealed.

we typically segment the customer base, so we know what set of problems each faces.

Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.

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his analysis of Kiss Me, Kate, Joseph P. Swain notes Porter's technique of moving from the major mode to the minor mode or vice versa to distinguish the Padua songs from their Baltimore counterparts.