Quotes About Analysis

They explain the new by the old—and the old they explain by the older still, like those historians who turn a Lenin into a Russian Robespierre, and a Robespierre into a French Cromwell: when all is said and done, they have never understood anything at all.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.

Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.