Danger Quote by John Banham

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for…

— Sigmund Freud

“It is often precisely these irresolvable issues that arouse our most impassioned certainty that we are right and our adversaries are wrong. To my…

— Kathryn Schulz

But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator…

— Charles Lindbergh

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

— Joseph Stiglitz

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

— Antonio Tabucchi

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the…

— Charles Babbage

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

— Marvin Minsky

We must correct what we find objectively wrong.

— Yoshihide Suga

We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms,…

— Sebastian Thrun

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth

— W. Edwards Deming

Most of us think that we are 'better than average' in most things. We are also 'miscalibrated,' meaning that our sense of the probability…

— Richard Thaler

“Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking.”

— Ray Dalio