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George E P Box Inspirational Quotes (10)

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The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.
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The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.
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Remember that all models are wrong the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
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Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.
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One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.
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The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.
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Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.
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The benefits provided by worker participation are twofold. Quality is improved because of the finding and fixing of a very large number of problems, but also, and perhaps equally important, moral is improved.
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All models are wrong, but some are useful.
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Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.
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