Analysis Quotes

"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons."

"If you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so. But it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct and intuition, taste, heart."

"When you see a good move, look for a better one."

"We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success."

"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work"

"My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous"

"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."

"The function of the scholar is to destroy myths"

"If you want to stress-test something, you have to break it"

"Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting"

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it"

"The simplest explanation is always the most likely."

"Most decisions are two-way doors. If you make the wrong choice, you can walk back out, pick another door, and try again. You spend a little time on the first choice, realize it's not right, and move on. However, some decisions are one-way doors. These are highly consequential and hard to reverse. Once you go through, there's no going back. These decisions must be made deliberately and carefully. If there’s another way to analyze them, you should slow down and take the time to do so"

"The interpretation of dreams is the via regia to the unconscious."

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher"