The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person. — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has… — Ben Parr Copy Share Image
A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else. — Noah Kagan Copy Share Image
My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“A discontent employee means not getting the results 100% and the loss of a company advocate as well.” — Pooja Agnihotri Copy Share Image
Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end. [Inspiration is] the metric that dictates whether or not a project… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to… — Jim McDonough Copy Share Image
Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you… — Ian Brodie Copy Share Image
Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995. — Capers Jones Copy Share Image
In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources. — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“This focus on improving an indicator while losing sight of the original goal is what I call indicatorism.” — Berend van der Kolk Copy Share Image
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly… — Adrian Davis Copy Share Image
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer… — Bruce Hoffman Copy Share Image