Quotes About Inaccuracy

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

The attempt was far from being completely successful, for the serfs—this was before the Emancipation—could not be made to work like regularly trained German labourers. In spite of all admonitions, threats, and punishments, they persisted in working slowly, listlessly, inaccurately, and occasionally they broke the new instruments from carelessness or some more culpable motive.

He was inaccurate because he was sensitive.

There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inaccurate

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

I recall thinking that this paper would be the least interesting paper that I will ever be on." Adleman could not have been more wrong. The system, dubbed RSA (Rivest, Shamir, Adleman) as opposed to ARS, went on to become the most influential cipher in modern cryptography.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

Through the overcast sky, I looked up and saw the tin-can planes. I watched their stomachs open and drop the bombs casually out. They were off target, of course. They were often off target.

Sometimes we just get it wrong.

My pants are on fire!

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

Lenz snorts. "My mistake.

But it is nearly as inaccurate to style the Irish people pure Milesian because the land was conquered and settled by the Milesians, as it would be to call them Anglo-Norman because it was conquered and settled by the twelfth century English.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

Yet none of these models actually is hydrogen!

But as we've seen lately, such predictions are generally worthless.

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

We're all wrong, every one of us.

Returning to my book, I learned that Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country. It was a wonderful evening.

She remembers that today is Sunday, which six days out of seven is not true.