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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies.

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.

If you're looking for a metric that we have to measure, that we have to control, it's government in relation to the size of our economy.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.

There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.