Quantification Quotes

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

We treasure what we can measure.

In terms of segments, I think we've done 1,200.

All science requires mathematics.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

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.

Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe

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

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Time is just quantified eternity.

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

I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed... anything that could be counted, I did.

I always liked numbers.

You have to put a market value on what you do.

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

Arithmetic is the death of story.

Not everything that counts can be counted.