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Quotes About Exact

Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.
~ Terry Pratchett
Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.
~ Sandra Lee
Almost only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Coming from the field of aviation, where mundane errors could cost lives, he was exact. For all these reasons, Dunie was drawn to testing, the grubby and anonymous side of programming.
~ G. Pascal Zachary
Do you think that any of us... any of the costumes are normal? We're all crazy. But we're the exact kind of crazy that the world needs right now. The exact kind.
~ Brian Michael Bendis
Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted. Consistency is no less pertinacious and exacting in its demands.
~ Homer
A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a treatise on cosmic truth... We can best be exact about the cosmic things - God and truth, beauty, eternity and love - by not talking directly about them.
~ Miller Williams
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.
~ John Maeda
Naturally I came out designed to be the exact opposite of this paragon, as anyone with a basic understanding of the balancing principle might have expected
~ Naomi Novik
Devorah tended to fill empty spaces with books: end tables, the tops of dressers, the edges of desks, on occasion even a chair. She would arrange and rearrange the books with exacting care, lining up the spines so none jutted out: sentinel rows of books.
~ Chaim Potok
Since taking office, Donald Trump and Mike Pence have governed the exact same way they campaigned, which is with bigotry and with bluster, and that includes toward the LGBTQ community.
~ Sarah McBride
We are acting by the letter; and 'the letter killeth.
~ Thomas Hardy
I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.
~ Carl Jung
Right now, we focus mostly on having deployable code at the end of the project. I propose we change that requirement. At each three-week sprint interval, we not only need to have deployable code but also the exact environment that the code deploys into, and have that checked into version control, too.
~ Gene Kim
My brother says the Broken has a city in this exact same spot. According to him, its citizens have an unhealthy fascination with pirates," Richard said.
~ Ilona Andrews
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
~ Rick Moody
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
~ Ralph Steadman
The helicopter ride was twenty-five minutes exactly
~ Tom Clancy
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting.
~ Eugene Delacroix
Which State Department, exactly, are we talking about? - The one in Washington, D.C.
~ Tara Janzen
What she did pay attention to was that same sense of rightness, possessed by every theorem she learned, as insistent as the tiles' physicality, and as exact as their fit.
~ Ted Chiang
as normally solved by engineers, would require any number of perfectly reasonable but aesthetically displeasing approximations. Lawrence's solution would provide exact results.
~ Neal Stephenson
The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident.... Is this not form?"
~ Giacomo Puccini