Writing Quote by Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“Sensible decision making involves acting on the information we have, even while accepting that it may well be imperfect and our decisions may need…

— Naomi Oreskes

“Finally, a manager's documents give him a data base and checklist. By reviewing them periodically he sees where he is, and he sees what…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made,…

— Donald Rumsfeld

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself

— Arthur William Radford

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

— Dick Brandon

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

— Ben Horowitz

The orders and directives issued on the basis of government decisions should be exhaustive and factual. Deep and thorough examination is required before taking…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own…

— Jon Postel

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables…

— John F. Kennedy

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised…

— Max Weber

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will…

— Manuel De Landa

“academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”

— Helen Sword