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Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.
If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.
Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.
To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.
The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.
Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity
There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.