George E. P. Box Quotes

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• To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
• Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.
• The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.
• Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
• The benefits provided by worker participation are twofold. Quality is improved because of the finding and fixing of a very large number of problems, but…
• The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give…
• Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they…
• ...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in…
• All models are wrong, but some are useful.

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