Quotes About Analysis

As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.

There are so many political talk shows out there that are doing such a good job that it would be foolish of me to try to get in the ring with them.

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.

I read the script first to get the perspective on the whole story, the writing, and how the character I'm auditioning for is talked about by other people or relates to other people; from there, I go into the sides.

The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

Everyone talks about how much data's in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store it. But if it's a movie, a poem, a song, it doesn't know what it's actually saying or doing.

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

Funnily enough, I think Gary Neville is very interesting... and talks a lot of sense.

When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.

Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.

a curious result kept turning up: If the same group of people took two different mental tests, anyone who did well (or poorly) on one test tended to do similarly well (or poorly) on the other. In statistical terms, the scores on the two tests were positively correlated.

It has been said that geometry is the art of applying good reasoning to bad diagrams.

A melhor maneira de examinar a lucratividade de sua empresa é dividindo-a em segmentos competitivos.

Christopher Morley extolled philosophical laziness … the kind of laziness that is based upon a carefully reasoned analysis of experience. Acquired laziness. We have no respect for those who were born lazy. It is like being born a millionaire – they cannot appreciate their bliss. It is the man who has hammered his laziness out of the stubborn material of life for whom we chant praise.7

you can solve any large or complex problem by breaking it down into smaller, simpler problems.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

As a developer you rarely get the time to sit back and really look at how the whole system fits together. As an architect, this is your main focus. While developers are furiously building classes, methods, tests, user interfaces and databases, you should be making sure that all those pieces work well together.

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, e.g., with no external memory aids, you are not ready to code it.

Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better.

We carve up the world and crown it with numbers—lumens, ounces, decibels. All these things and what to do with them. We carve up the world all the time.

We could pull it apart, spend our whole lives pulling it apart and have no time left to do anything smart with the pieces.

We carve up the world/and crown it with numbers—lumens, ounces,/decibels. All these things and what to do with them.

To put this more concretely, we argue that professional work should be decomposed, that is, broken down into its constituent 'tasks'—