Analytic Quotations

During the 1950s, I decided, as did many others, that many practical problems were beyond analytic solution and that simulation techniques were required. At RAND, I participated in the building of large logistics simulation models; at General Electric, I helped build models of manufacturing plants.

Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.

We knew they were going to fly a commercial airliner into the tallest building in California. And it was an analytic judgement by the intelligence community that that meant the Library Tower.

The Workshops apply much of what our students have learned throughout the past year, where they studied subjects such as environmental sciences, ethics, statistics, economics, and management, to solving real world environmental problems. Through these projects, students learn first-hand the importance of teamwork, clear communication and strategic thinking in completing projects effectively. Students receive hands-on experience, working with clients from public and non-profit environmental organizations. Our program places a premium on learning by doing. Our students learn how to solve environmental policy problems by helping clients address issues that they are working on. Everyone wins ? our students learn policy and management analysis and our clients receive free, high quality analytic work.

Fair Isaac continues to successfully deliver analytic applications that support critical business process and overall performance improvements, ... Fair Isaac's solutions for vital processes such as customer management, risk management and fraud control are well-established in the financial services industry, and the company continues to focus on expanding the relevance and impact of its analytics across industries.

Expect to see more analytic applications from us. We're committed to moving the conversation from a tools discussion with IT and going to a business audience.

Despite the fact that we have spent gazillions of dollars in schools on technology, it's still just a leap of faith that kids are better educated because of that. Students need to have some opportunity to digest material serially, like reading a book from end to end. A tiny screen might stop you from being an analytic thinker 'cause you just can't see enough of a thing at once.

They serve very different audiences. But if you bring the two together onto a single platform, then your reporting solution could potentially leverage some of the metadata or integration capabilities that are in the analytic tool.

All our analytic applications can now take advantage of the innovations we're bringing to market in our XI Release 2 platform.

The consensus analytic view was that there was a lot of dissatisfaction but that it didn't translate into a pre-revolutionary situation. Iran doesn't have the appetite for making another revolution. I think there has probably been more faith among the policy-makers in the prospects of true regime change than most of the analysts believe.

He's wonderful at stirring up an argument and slinging around rhetoric. ... For some of these people, it seems to be a theological issue. For us, it's an analytic issue.

The central claim of the book is that effective analytic designs entail turning thinking principles into seeing principles.