measurement Quotes

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

"Success is only measured in terms of JOY."

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

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

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How... ...

"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted."

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without... ...

If there were no soul, or no mind within the soul to count, then time couldn't exist. Time is something that depends on change, and change might exist without a soul, but without a counter, no 'time' as a measurable... ...

"Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting."

"What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count."