Analysis Quotes

"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons." "If you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so. But it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct and intuition, taste, heart." "Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people" "Experts often possess more data than judgment." "Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting." "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth." "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it" "The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work" "The function of the scholar is to destroy myths" "The simplest explanation is always the most likely." "If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences and infer the motivation" "When scientific evidence is given, reasoning is paramount." "My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous" "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" "We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success." "One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books." "If you want to stress-test something, you have to break it" "What does it mean to understand something fully? It means to be able to analyze and explain it" "Most decisions are two-way doors. If you make the wrong choice, you can walk back out, pick another door, and try again. You spend a little time on the first choice, realize it's not right, and move on. However, some decisions are one-way doors. These are highly consequential and hard to reverse. Once you go through, there's no going back. These decisions must be made deliberately and carefully. If there’s another way to analyze them, you should slow down and take the time to do so" "Humor can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind"