Quotes About Analysis

Artists, on the other hand, talk to determine what works, what does not, and why. Their focus is more on the micro; it moves from the inside out.

Statistics are information, not condemnation.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Fundamentally, all UX research answers one of two questions: (a) Who are our users and what are they trying to do? (b) Can people use the thing we've designed to solve their problem? You answer the first question with a field visit and you answer the second question with a usability test.

Quantitative data tell us what people are doing. Qualitative data tell us why people are doing it. The best kind of research combines the two kinds of data.

the next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape

The channel got switched to Fox News and a panel of experts was desperately trying to fill airtime by finding ways to rephrase the nothing that they knew, over and over again.

Read Between The Lies Of History: Research & Destroy

You can never read too much into anything

Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

The way you'll "watch" the game is through a score sheet that follows the passes, the dribbles, the shots, the rebounds, the steals, the fouls—most everything that happens with the ball. By following these most basic elements of offense, the score sheet will highlight the important aspects of the ebb and flow of the game. It will be like a broadcaster's play-by-play transcript of the game. The

Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.

I am a scientist," I told him ruthlessly. "I do not require perfect knowledge in order to form a working hypothesis, only possibilities.

Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster

A leader is solution oriented and a philosopher is problem oriented.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.