Analysis Quotes

"One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books." "If you want to stress-test something, you have to break it" "What does it mean to understand something fully? It means to be able to analyze and explain it" "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" "Humor can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind" "The interpretation of dreams is the via regia to the unconscious." "When you see a good move, look for a better one." "For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher" "The lack of data is a major source of uncertainty, not lack of theory"