Steve Lohr > Quotes

“A typical twenty-bed intensive care unit generates an estimated 160,000 data points a second.”
― Steve Lohr, Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

“Newell and Simon predicted that by 1970 computers would be capable of composing classical music, discovering important new mathematical theorems, and understanding and translating spoken language.”
― Steve Lohr, Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Ico

“bigger goal is to foster a mind-set, so that thinking about data becomes an intellectual first principle, the starting point of inquiry. It’s a mentality that can be summed up in a question: What story does the data tell you? The”
― Steve Lohr, Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

“doctors and nurses make decisions at a rapid clip, about 100 decisions a day per patient, according to research at Emory. Or more than 9.3 million decisions about care during a year in an ICU. So there is ample room for error.”
― Steve Lohr, Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

“with elements of artistry and creativity, workers are not interchangeable units of labor.”
― Steve Lohr, Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Ico

“Brooks’s Law, states: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
― Steve Lohr, Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Ico

“The main cargo is drugs, roughly 240 million pills a day. The pharmaceutical distribution business is one of high volumes and razor-thin profit margins. So, understandably, efficiency has been all but a religion for McKesson for decades.”
― Steve Lohr, Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else