#Measurement Quotes

“Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.”

“Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?”

“In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.”

“You can't manage what you don't measure.”

“What gets measured gets managed.”

“If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.”

“If you can't measure it, you can't change it.”

“I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.”

“How can you measure acting in inches?”

“I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.”

“In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.”

“I'm 63 now. But that's just 17 Celsius.”

“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”

“I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.”

“Not all that counts, can be counted”

“Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant”

“Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.”

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