Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

Mosquito control is currently the most effective measure to reduce malaria transmission.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality

We are concerned that the push to measure quality will become just a smoke screen to cut costs and to reduce the resources devoted to health care.

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

Price caps are not a solution to a dysfunctional market. However, they are a damage control measure until solutions are developed, ... By giving power to the PUC to regulate gasoline, California can take a real step to reduce cost burdens on working families.