Keith Joseph Quotes

Do I pass, Dr. Saunders?

We want to put power to the test of adversarial review.

Everything is a test.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Whenever you can, count.

As always, testing can only give you ideas on where you are. And it can also mislead you.

We need to learn what's working and what's not working.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!” “It’s the same difference!

There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.

I'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context.

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Even my enemies would acknowledge that I'm a great judge of talent, and this statement will be proven true time and time again.

Critics matter to me.

Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.

When we don't win, we have to draw conclusions and assess our mistakes. Things can always be improved.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

The analysis these [machine learning] systems are capable of performing are so vast and at levels of complication and scales so immense that human verification, by hand or thru traditional methods, is staggeringly difficult. With any ML system in which the answer is really important, a big challenge facing ML data scientists is finding a way to validate the results.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.