Dorothy Denning Quotes

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.

I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It's always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you figure it out. I call customers, suppliers, industry analysts and try to get as much information as possible.

The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data.

You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

I want to make smart choices.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

I'm practical, very data-driven, and process-oriented. If I look at a radar and see a giant green blob coming toward me, I'm thinking it's probably going to snow.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

Go with the science!.

One cannot guarantee that if we have good intelligence, good policy will necessarily follow. But we can guarantee that if we have poor intelligence, poor policy will necessarily follow.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.

Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed - and that can be dangerous.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.

I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.

You need the right balance between data and gut feeling.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

You can't make good decisions without knowing the business.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.