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

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

It’s so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I’ve never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

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

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn’t do with anything else, we just have to do it.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.