numbers

a number

in its barest form

is an abstraction

... a representative
... a slice of truth

it's a strategy
of the past

to make sense
of a perceived
complexity

to present an order

to represent
... an observation
a slice of a truth = )

it has context
it has basis
it has bias = )

but it does not mean
that we should
forget about numbers

it's just that

we should not limit
ourselves to numbers...

Oh, Deming!