Evan Kane

“The fact is that the preference for ignorance over even marginal reductions in ignorance is never the moral high ground.”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

“Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man. —Bertrand Russell”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

“The commonplace notion that presumes measurements are exact quantities ignores the usefulness of simply reducing uncertainty, especially if eliminating uncertainty is not feasible (as is usually the case).”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

“What they really mean is that “numbers can be used to confuse people, especially the gullible ones lacking basic skills with numbers.” With this, I completely agree,”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business