Quotes about Measurement System

Steve Jobs

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

Magna Carta

There shall be one measure of wine through our kingdom, and one measure of ale, and onemeasure of corn … and one breadth of dyed cloth and of rufflets …. It shall be the same as with weights as measures …

Sealed under duress and later repudiated by the King with Papal assistance

Jesse Helms

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Lord Kelvin

You, in this country, are subjected to the British insularity in weights and measures; you use the foot, inch and yard. I am obliged to use that system, but must apologize to you for doing so, because it is so inconvenient, and I hope Americans will do everything in their power to introduce the French metrical system. ... I look upon our English system as a wickedly, brain-destroying system of bondage under which we suffer. The reason why we continue to use it, is the imaginary difficulty of making a change, and nothing else; but I do not think in America that any such difficulty should stand in the way of adopting so splendidly useful a reform

Based on his and most other scientists recommendations the United States finally changed officially to the metric system in the 1970s. Congress passed laws, Executive Orders were issued, the Department of Education provided materials, and schools put it in their curricula. However, America never changed. The difficulty of making the change was not imaginary, but real. The government could not do it, because the majority of the people did not want it done.

Eric Hobsbawm

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

Jean-Baptiste Say

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

Jim Butcher

Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

Lancelot Hogben

Mathematics is the language of size.

Brian Eno

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Steven Levitan

Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is.

Lincoln Chafee

Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.

Patton Oswalt

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

Measurement System Quotes