Ends Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

— Charles Goodhart

“If it cannot be measured, it is impossible to know whether we have obtained it. An immeasurable goal is a sloppy and inefficient goal.”

— Shmaya David

“If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a…

— Douglas W. Hubbard

“No test can measure anything important.   On”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

— Nikola Tesla

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

— Helen Keller

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

— Tom McCall

“What drives pure reason to efforts that seem to have neither end nor result?”

— Susan Neiman

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which…

— Francis Bacon

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for…

— Cleveland Abbe

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

— Josephus