Quotes About Analysis

it is one thing to have a qualitative impression of something, and a very different thing to have a quantitative estimate of the same thing, based on cold, hard numbers. Science thrives on numbers.

But before we could continue the war, it was necessary to analyze it to determine what its purpose was. We did this, and we found that it had no purpose, except, perhaps, in terms of human needs. Even this was questionable.

She used to stand there and watch me do this shit back then, flashing me "Die!" messages, like they say in transactional analysis. Die. Do not be.

No literary work longer than a haiku is going to be entirely without faults.

The classroom is a torture chamber , interrogating poetry until it confesses.

the literary equivalent of tearing the petals off and grinding them up and running the goo through a spectrometer to explain why a rose smells so pretty.

Not as rabid a fan as, say, Nicholson Baker, but I do believe that The Poorhouse Fair, Of the Farm, and The Centaur are all great books, maybe classics. And even since '81's Rabbit Is Rich—as his characters seemed to become more and more repellent, and without any corresponding sign that the author understood that they were repellent—

But everyone who guessed in this way went low, rather than high. It suggests that there is some form of systemic bias in play.

You broke the problem down and examined the component parts. Most men attempt to solve riddles by allowing their minds to leap like monkeys from branch to branch, without ever realizing that it is the root that needs examining. Always remember that, young prince. The method works with men as well as it works with riddles.

As you look at a client, force yourself to ask three questions: • What is the client's prevailing personal motivation? • What is their personality? • How does the state of their organization affect their worldview?

With many important exceptions, the tone of much American historical writing turned deeply negative during the early twenty-first century. It remained so as these words were written, in 2021.

When teams are asked to work together to analyze problems and design solutions, the quality is higher.

Also of great importance in the discovery of linguistic phenomena that led to cryptanalysis was the development of lexicography.

Analyzing the frequency and contacts of letters is the most universal, most basic of cryptanalytic procedures.

But that's the part that's so unfair. I have nothing else on my mind. How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind?

Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions

Analysis has a way of unravelling the self: the longer you pull on the thread, the more flaws you find.

Gosset examined the data and determined that the counts of yeast cells could be modeled with a probability distribution known as the "Poisson distribution.

The early years of statistical development were dominated by men. Many women were working in the field, but they were almost all employed in doing the detailed calculations needed for statistical analysis, and were indeed called computers.

There's something about picking the psychic apart that I don't like. It's cynical and uninteresting.

Experts flatten the world.

He didn't get depressed, but he managed this not by looking away but by looking closely, attending to each logical step in any particular problem, so that the problem itself filled all available mental space.

After all, you can storm the house of a novel like Barthes, rearranging the furniture as you choose, or you can enter on your knees, like the pilgrim Nabokov thought you were, and try to figure out the cunning design of the place - the house will stand either way.

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