Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Progress is made where progress is measured.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It's part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.

I've got a lot of stats. I did a lot of stuff.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

All of the studies we do in my group are quantified.

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

What gets measured, gets done….Results measurement is now mainstreamed

You'll never hear me talk about stats.

The numbers are hard to control.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

Stats aren't everything.

If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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

We treasure what we can measure.

If you measure it, it will improve.

You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

You can't control what you can't measure