Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted

When you need a handy quotation to emphasis a point Einstein and Shakespeare are always there with the bon mot and ready to serve any purpose in or out of context. And so greatness is reduced to the serviceable sound byte. Here Einstein reminds us of the limitations of the obsession with data. Of course it is useful and with the general skepticism about being “opinion rich and data poor” it is essential. But still….

So today, for the first time, my site meter reports that the percentage of hits from the USA on this site has fallen below 75%. I could also tell you the percentages of operating systems and size of the color monitors. Not very interesting or useful. Like a lot of data.