| "I am totally satisfied with Insight ... it
brought to life my statistics and 'OR' textbooks. I read your Insight book
in bed and my girlfriend thinks I am mad." Boyd Nicholds - Oslo, Norway
"Thanks for the kind comments, but I agree with your girlfriend!" Sam Savage
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Praise & Press for Insight First Edition
"...hits you right where you learn."
William Perry
- Former Secretary of Defense of the United States
"Rarely has such sound theory been provided in such an entertaining manner.
.... a must read.."
Harry Markowitz
- Nobel Laureate in Economics
"A savage onslaught against the algebraic curtain."
Bill Machrone
- PC Week
"Sam Savage is the perfect Zen master of spreadsheets."
Brad Osgood
- Director, Science, Mathematics, Engineering Core, Stanford University
"Business schools teach the theory and the math, but Sam's approach is
intuitive and visual. His tools work right in the spreadsheet, so most
people can hit the ground running and bosses will have no trouble reading
and interpreting the results."
Matthew Raphaelson
- Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo & Company
"Sam Savage has given us an enormously practical way to use business
analysis tools such as simulation, decision trees, and optimization. These
tools are taught in many business schools but the approach is, alas, too
often skewed toward the theoretical and many students feel uneasy making
the transition to use them in actual business situations."
John P. Gould
- Professor & Former Dean, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
"I must say that the information was just as compelling as a good novel... I
am totally pleased."
Kirk Johnson
- Kraft Foods
"Sophisticated concepts developed over several decades have been faithfully
and beautifully captured in spreadsheet form--making these concepts both
understandable and usable by a wide audience. And this material is not just
for the novice. Professionals will find useful programs that can be used
immediately to solve important and realistic problems."
David G. Luenberger
- Professor, Stanford University and Author of Investment Science
"May I say that I am absolutely elated with your work. For the first time I
have been given an extremely usable way to employ business analysis tools
in my actual daily business decisions."
Dr. Udo Henseler, Vice President and CFO, Qualicon Inc., A DuPont Company
"Not until I got my copy of Insight had I been able to make any progress
with using statistics to analyze stock market data."
Ron McEwan
- Independent Trader
"In a class by itself."
James M. Clark
- Editor, Financial Engineering News
"Without question, the leader of the management science in spreadsheets
movement is Sam Savage."
OR/MS Today
"Probably the most important text I read in the last two years."
Bruno Monastero
- In his review at Amazon.
Praise & Press for the commercial edition of XLSim, Dr. Savage's Monte Carlo simulation package with electronic tutorial:
"Sam Savage is a rare expositor ... you will have a hard time
becoming an expert without it."
Peter L. Bernstein
- author of "Against the Gods, The Remarkable Story of Risk."
"I highly recommend this tool"
James M. Clark
- Editor, Financial Engineering News
"XLSim is the preferred Monte Carlo simulation code in my department."
RW Blakemore
- Director, Center For Advanced Technology, General Electric Wind Energy
"This is really cool. Works great!"
Noel Ginsburg
- First National Bank of Omaha
"I have incorporated XL Sim into my planning practice and it has helped my
clients to better understand 'The flaw of averages'"
Donald Kipke
- Consultant
"It's like taking candy from a statistician. Slick is the only word that
comes to mind for XLSim."
Stephen Cole
- Senior Vice President of Market Science and Analytic Decision Systems, Eucid Inc.
"I've only had 20 minutes with it - but my word what an improvement."
John Hartley
- Chairman, Enertec Holdings (Monte Carlo, of all places)
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