Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The real sting here lies in the second clause—it's not enough to say some things matter beyond numbers. Cameron insists that certain values *resist* measurement altogether, which means we can't simply decide to count them better or harder. A hospital administrator might perfectly measure patient wait times and infection rates while remaining blind to whether people actually feel cared for, not because the caring is invisible, but because it fundamentally doesn't translate into data points. This distinction separates the wise from the merely efficient.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
Seneca“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it mean...”
Steve Jobs