William Stone Quotes

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

I think I'm a good fact finder.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Science is about filling in the details.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.

A great many decisions just can’t be made with confidence because the data just doesn’t exist …. [however] just because we don’t have the information doesn’t mean that we can’t get it.

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Do not speculate; get data and calculate.

My whole career has been marked by taking on the toughest problems, bringing people together, creating uncommon coalitions to ultimately produce uncommon results - things that people said couldn't be done.

'Columbinus' was four years of my life, collaborating with a lot of people and gathering lots of information.

I'm supporting anything that we can do to find out how this stuff is happening.

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.