Evan Kane

“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

“The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability. —Pierre Simon Laplace, Théorie Analytique des Probabilités, 1812”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

“The cultural goal would be to raise the standard of rational due diligence, in both public discourse and personal reflection. Until we do this, the scientific revolution is not truly complete. Science has not reached its full potential until citizens have the rationality skills to responsibly interpret science stories in the media.”
― Ivan Phillips, Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools

“It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. —Aristotle (384 b.c.–322 b.c.)”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business