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-{{a|devil|}}{{quote|“Information is not knowledge.” <br>
+{{a|devil|}}{{quote|In my mind, if you run your company on visible figures alone you will have neither company nor figures given time. Important figures are unknown and unknowable.
-{{Deming on performance appraisal}}}}Unfairly remembered mainly for a trite observation about [[data]],<ref>“In God we trust, all others must bring data.”</ref> — we prefer the one above — Mr. Deming was a man before his time. Either that, or we are a people ''after'' his time, since his ideas seem to have been pretty popular at the time — though somewhat out of print now — but we seem, unwisely, to have forgotten them:
+:—Llogqyd Evans}}
+{{quote|“Information is not knowledge.” <br>
+{{Deming on performance appraisal}}}}Unfairly remembered mainly for a trite observation about [[data]],<ref>“In God we trust, all others must bring data.”</ref> — we prefer the one above — Mr. Deming was a man before his time. Either that, or we are a people ''after'' his time, since his ideas seem to have been pretty popular at the time — though unwisely, to have forgotten them:
 Here are 14 principles — actually, 13, since one seems to be repeated — to improve a business. They were first presented in Deming’s book {{br|Out of the Crisis}}.