Quotes About Analysis

By analyzing public data with the help of computers, people can uncover secrets without ever seeing a classified database.

Dippers' are those who dig in into different issues and make commentaries without actually doing anything to resolve issues.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

We shouldn't call a critic a murderer just because it is his duty to sign death certificates. —MARCEL REICH-RANICKI, DIE ANWALTE DER LITERATUR,

a two-word formulation for the miraculous ability of pundits to deduce that a past event had been inevitable: "retrospective clairvoyance.

When I examine my experimental research, I find to my embarrassment I rarely provided a control condition. What could I have possibly learned from these ill-designed experiments? The answer (it surprised me) is that you can test theoretical models without a control condition.

it may be comforting to recall that detailed longitudinal analysis of the behavior of a single solar system was the foundation stone for Kepler's laws, and ultimately Newton's.

The historian is never more himself than when he is searching his mind for a general statement that shall in itself give the hint of its own underlying complexity.

The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect.

Critici zijn beroepshalve verkeerd-lezers. Het begint er al mee dat lezen natuurlijk nooit een beroep mag worden; je bent ook geen beroepseter of beroepswandelaar. Het is onethisch. Lezen doe je voor je plezier.

Two possibilities present themselves for the analytical treatment of metrical geometry.

Como siempre, confunde duda con profundidad, vacilación con análisis.

help. I understood I'd never be allowed to operate at such heights if it wasn't through him. For a while, we both enjoyed this alliance. Soon, tho, an imbalance became obvious: what he could teach me (nature of instruments, procedures, balance sheet analysis, etc.) was finite, while my domain was inexhaustible

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

I notice small things. I'm a "detail" guy, that's why I'm good at programming.

one can no more hinder criticism than the use of eyes, tongues, and judgment.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

I watched people like a scientist watches an experiment. Never did I feel like I was looking in a mirror. Always did I feel I was here and they were there.

She felt detached from all aspects of her life. She had no time anymore to feel. All that time she used to waste feeling, and analyzing her feelings, as if they were a matter of national significance.

It was one of the best things about him; he liked to talk about people, study them, and work them out. He was interested in the complexities of relationships.

word and its implications from every angle.

The careful untangling of a legal issue. Like math, but with words.

I'd forgotten that the best part of dating wasn't the actual dating at all but the talking about it: the analysis of potential new boyfriends with your girlfriends.

If anyone uses the words 'marvelous imagery' or 'narrative arc,' slap them for me.