Quotes About Accuracy

I've been 5-6 since I've been at least 17 or 18. I think somebody made a mistake on the measurements.

I don't do anything without measuring 10 times and cutting once.

You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.

Obviously you have to trust the VAR to make the right decision.

I always like to do things the right way.

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

League-wide, 99 percent of the rumors are just way off base.

I always say that it's tough to judge a player when you're just hearing rumors. It's never accurate.

Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.

I think diverse stories are just stories. I don't think 'diverse' is an add-on package. Things that are not diverse are weird because that's not accurate.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

I'm not going to go out there and throw the ball all around the park and throw it to the other team.

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out by just sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A

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We were doing this shopping search and saying, "We want a test where on this query we want to get 80 percent right answers." And so they're saying, "Right! So if it's a wrong answer it's a bug, right?" And I said, "No, it's OK to have one wrong answer as long at it's not 80 percent." So they say, "So a wrong answer's not a bug?" It was like those were the only two possibilities. There wasn't an idea that it's more of a trade-off.

Any project can be estimated accurately (once it's completed).

Failure to converge. Confidence limits exceeded. Further predictions unreliable.

Consumers of forecasting will stop being gulled by pundits with good stories and start asking pundits how their past predictions fared—and reject answers that consist of nothing but anecdotes and credentials.