Einstein : Not everything that can be counted counts. And not everything that counts can be counted.

Saturday 7 July 2007

Einstein, again.

Some more Einstein quotes.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.............Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.....................Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough..............Albert Einstein

And again:
Not everything that can be counted counts.
And not everything that counts can be counted..........Albert Einstein

Anyone else got any other quotes that they like ?

2 comments:

Metcountymounty said...

I'm still waiting to hear this over the radio from Gold on a public order event -

"Cry Havoc!!! and let slip the dogs of war!!"

Many thanks to The Bard for that one!!

Steve_Roberts said...

Since I understand Police forces are shackled by innumerable pointless and arbitrary numerical targets and the bureaucratic apparatus to collect statistics to demonstrate that said targets are being met, I thought you might like this quote from an extremely distinguished statistician (he was the man who taught Japanese industry in the 50s and 60s how to make high quality goods):

"the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable" W E Deming