Quotes About Analysis

So the hierarchy of goals is roughly: satisfy hunger; eat; cook; read cookbook; get more light. This is called a root cause analysis: asking "Why?" until the ultimate, fundamental cause of the activity is reached.

It is amazing how often people solve the problem before them without bothering to question it.

Muchas equivocaciones se deben a caprichos del pensamiento humano, a menudo porque la gente tiende a fiarse de las experiencias que recuerda, en lugar de utilizar un análisis sistemático.

Engineers and businesspeople are trained to solve problems. Designers are trained to discover the real problems. A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.

One of my rules in consulting is simple: never solve the problem I am asked to solve. Why such a counterintuitive rule? Because, invariably, the problem I am asked to solve is not the real, fundamental, root problem. It is usually a symptom. Just

Ask "Why?" as many times as may be necessary to get to the root cause of the problem and then fix it so it can never occur again.

When a bridge collapses, we analyze the incident to find the causes of the collapse and reformulate the design rules to ensure that form of accident will never happen again. When we discover that electronic equipment is malfunctioning because it is responding to unavoidable electrical noise, we redesign the circuits to be more tolerant of the noise. But when an accident is thought to be caused by people, we blame them and then continue to do things just as we have always done.

Designers need to focus their attention on the cases where things go wrong, not just on when things work as planned.

Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.

Keep Asking "Which Results In . . ." to Get to Your Solution

Assess the Strength of Your Marketing Campaign

To do this, you want to start by listing the top five reasons why someone would not want to do business with you.

check the prints. At the end of that time, he went back down to the lab

Patta would have fallen upon these details as a beast upon prey and torn into them in an attempt to find nourishment.

We do not create meaning out of a text; rather, we seek to find the meaning that is already there.

So they profiled the Gingerbread Man with a curved spine." "It's just a hunch," I said.

In the analysis of books, as in the analysis of complex world events, we hover between two kinds of error: ascribing too much meaning where there is little, if any, to be found, and ignoring meaning that stares us right in the face.

Marx, Engels, and Lenin have carried on the tradition of rational and non-mystical approach to all human problems; this is the tradition of the best Greek philosophers and the founders of modern science. Careful analysis; separation of factors; the following of causes into their effects; reliance on experiments; all are taken over into Marxism and provide it with a hard scientific core. There is nowhere any pandering to special intuitions or spiritual experiences.

Geometrical irregularities, such as holes and cracks and sharp corners, which had previously been ignored, may raise the local stress ? often only over a very small area ? very dramatically indeed.

It is necessary to avoid confusion between the strength of a structure and the strength of a material.

When all else fails, philosophize.

Indeed, I have found that confidence is one of the most consistent traits exhibited by the successful traders I have interviewed.

trend line penetrations often prove to be false signals.

Now it's no longer sufficient to assume that because you trade with the trend, you'll make money. Of course, you still need to be with the trend, because it puts the percentages in your favor, but you also have to pay a lot more attention to where you're getting in and out.