Quotes About Analysis

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing.

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

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

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

In science, the kind of evidence matters; all unlikelihoods are not created equal.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

I try to examine everything to see if there's another approach.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.

You cannot judge a team accurately on the basis of the first-innings leads they have secured.