Component Analysis Quotes

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

I don't believe that if you are going to build a long-term, sustainable brand that you can chop up every component part and expect everyone to have a perfect P&L.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

They could find something wrong with every car if they took it apart for a whole day at the R&D center.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.