Quotes About Analysis

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.