“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”.
Charles Goodhart
Category Archives: Quotes
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“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands”.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
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“I’m trying to avoid the conclusion that we’ve become Nicaragua.”
General Michael Hayden, former head of the NSA and the CIA, quoted in the New Yorker.
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Liam Fox, please copy.
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From Martin Wolf in today’s Financial Times.
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“Analogies decide nothing, but they make one feel more at home.”
Sigmund Freud
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“Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.”
Scott Adams
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“Increasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles that we accept only information, whether true or not, that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the evidence that’s out there.”
Barack Obama in his farewell speech, Chicago, 10 January 2017.
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“This year 6 US citizens won Nobel prizes. And every one of them was an immigrant. Every one of them.”
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“There’s no sense in being precise when you don’t even know what you’re talking about.”
John von Neumann