we’ve been grappling with data a lot lately at mozilla, trying to understand more and more about the world we’re living in and building. i look at charts & graphs about what’s happening every single day. i’m hearing that sentiment just about everywhere on the web lately.
one place i found a quote from the guy who invented the kelvin scale (figuring out where to put zero turns out to be an extremely meaningful insight) that captures it:
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the state of science.
Rush
Aug 30, 16:10 › Craig: Triumph!!! and..... Aug 20, 16:27 › l.m.orchard: +1 to everything you wrote here, including the bits Aug 16, 12:50 › dria: King Crimson is probably more musically/technically Aug 16, 5:32 › Al Jigen Billings: I feel the same way about Trent Reznor and Nine Inch