Quotes About Analysis

What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author of 31 books, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom

Y en qué consiste el estudio emocional de una idea?

Topology allows the possibility of making qualitative predictions when quantitative ones are impossible.

a continuous curve that goes from the lower half-plane to the upper half-plane must cross the horizontal axis at some point.

differentiation is the adjoint of the boundary operation.

differential equations that can be solved in "closed form," that is, by means of a formula for the unknown function f, are the exception rather than the rule

the second derivative conveys just the idea we want—a comparison between the value at x and the average value near x. It is worth noting that if f is linear, then the average of f(x - h) and f(x + h) will be equal to f(x), which fits with the familiar fact that the second derivative of a linear function f is zero.

oppression is theorized as structurally relational to, and hence shaped by, capitalist production rather than on the margins of analysis or as add-ons to a deeper and more vital economic process.

The framework thus seeks to make visible labor and work that are analytically hidden by classical economists and politically denied by policy makers.

what gets measured can be improved.

When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature

A photograph is a cipher for which we consult our own code books.

W. Edwards Deming wrote, "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing.

Invariably, identical facts provoke starkly different interpretations.

If you know a person's personality type their behavior begins to make sense.

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

It's not so much that I am a cynic, I just might take a bit too much pleasure in demonstrating why things aren't as rosy as they seem.

The writer overthinks by necessity, collecting and complicating small details, while the tournament golfer needs to be simple, myopic, fixated on one detail at a time.

Science requires a rational audience.

Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.

All the projects that coaches go through in the offseason are based on the success other teams had in every area whether it's offense, defense or special teams. What they do is see if they can incorporate anything they see with the people they have.

I think there's a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.

Offense, defense - on both ends of the floor - figuring that out. I'll keep watching the film and see where I can keep getting better.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.