Quotes About Analysis

The difference between a hermeneutics of restoration and a hermeneutics of suspicion, we might say, lies in the difference between unveiling and unmasking. Here

Good customer segments are a who-where pair. If you don't know where to go to find your customers, keep slicing your segment into smaller pieces until you do.

Yet among the countries most comparable to the United States and where democratic institutions have long existed without breakdown, not one has adopted our American constitutional system. It would be fair to say that without a single exception they have all rejected it.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

He supposed that the dream was fragile. If thought about to practically, if analyzed to closely, it might well cease to recur. The dream was probably best left in the back of the mind, at the edges of the mind; within that mental area which comes into its own between waking and sleeping- and, less happily, between sleeping and waking.

It's just that smart people are prone to look into matters to see how they might go about buttering their toast. Then they butter their toast.

Detached analysis has a place—but, in the end, you've got to speak from the heart and pose the question of truth.)

Democracy depends on citizens who are able to recognize the truth, analyze and weigh alternatives, and civilly debate their future, just as it depends on citizens who have an equal voice and equal stake in it. Without an educated populace, a common good cannot even be discerned. This is fundamental.

Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.

extensive analysis requires more time, energy, and motivation. As a consequence, its impact on our decisions is limited by the rigor it requires. If we don't have the wherewithal (time, capacity, will) to think hard about a choice, we're unlikely to deliberate deeply.

The value of mapping is that it allows us to understand, plan, and communicate about some experience or phenomenon without having to actually "be there.

The NLP process of modeling, for example, involves making a map of a person's patterns of behavior, which may then be applied in various ways.

They used the façade of Bork's pinched academic analysis to justify killing off antitrust.

more than one in three young families with children (headed by someone thirty or under) were living in poverty in 2010, according to an analysis of census data by Northeastern University's

2018, the stock market posted its worst annual performance since the financial crisis. The median shareholder return for the largest five hundred corporations was a negative 5.8 percent. But their top executives got raises of 5 percent or more, with the typical CEO pay reaching a record $12.4 million, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal.

there is no one, but no one, more gullible than a psychiatrist)

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

The unit tests are documents. They describe the lowest-level design of the system.

If only we could pull this off one more time. If only we could just say we were done with implementation. But we can't, because the thing about implementation is that is actually has to be done. Analysis and design are not binary deliverables. They do not have unambiguous completion criteria. There's no real way to know that you are done with them. So we might as well be done on time.

Analysis and design are not binary deliverables. They do not have unambiguous completion criteria. There's no real way to know that you are done with them.

During this design process, we rarely considered whether we were performing analysis, design, or implementation

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Powerful people never waste time. Outwardly they may play along with the game — pretending that power is shared among many — but inwardly they keep their eyes on the inevitable few in the group who hold the cards. These are the ones they work on. When troubles arise, they look for the underlying cause, the single strong character who started the stirring and whose isolation or banishment will settle the waters again.