Quotes About Accuracy

Remember that the lead time for a process block begins when the work is available to be worked on, not when an employee begins working on it, so identifying the trigger will help the team obtain a more accurate lead time.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.

If you don't measure the performance, you're just guessing, and if you're guessing, you're not very likely to write top-notch code.

The great advantage of digital media is that it can be stored, retrieved and massaged by a computer—at lightning speed and with unerring accuracy.

On a computer there is no consolation in discovering you're almost right. Almost means you're still just wrong.

Programming "was just the most bizarre situation, because you're used to doing something and thinking you've done it right," he later said. "But it isn't right. You just don't notice it isn't right. On a computer there is no consolation in discovering you're almost right. Almost means you're still just wrong." Even

What would be the good of being a marksman, when you cannot see the end of your own rifle, let alone the man you are firing at?

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

The store is fifteen Mayas wide and twenty Mayas long. She knows this because she once spent an afternoon measuring it by lying her body across the room. It is fortunate that it is not more than thirty Mayas long because that is as far as she could count on the day the measurements were taken.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be.

The store is seven Mayas wide and twelve Mayas long. She knows this because she once spent an afternoon measuring it by lying her body across the room. It is fortunate that it is not more than twenty Mayas long because that is as far as she could count on the day the measurements were taken.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

The daily routines of each and every element in this universe is based on accurate mathematics. Wherever the math fails, there is destruction.

My intent, here, is to tell our story in a dramatically truthful way. While the facts may be less than accurate, please understand that the emotion is true. The intent is true. And, dramatically speaking, intention is everything.

is uncertain' or that 'anything goes'. In fact, it is a clear mathematical statement. It reflects the way that different aspects of the physical world are intimately connected at the quantum level. Its best-known formulation is that the more accurately you know the position of a quantum particle, the less accurately you know its momentum.†† It is impossible to know both perfectly at the same time.

For us to demand that the Biblical text be scientifically or historically "accurate" as we define those terms is not a high view of Scripture, it is a low view of Scripture. It is in fact imposing our own prejudices upon the text by refusing to understand it within its context. This is called cultural imperialism and it is the height of hubris, or human pride.

Accuracy and diligence are much more necessary to a Lawyer, than great comprehension of mind, or brilliancy of talents," Daniel Webster argued, for the lawyer's "business is to refine, define, and split hairs…. A man can never gallop over the fields of Law on Pegasus, nor fly across them on the wing of oratory. If he would stand on terra firma he must descend."25

Even a broken watch is correct twice a day.

Word can travel fast when it wants to, but the truth? The truth is rarely so reliable.

And there the trail ended: with the quotation exposed as a half-remembered story told by a dead man who might or might not have seen it in a newspaper around 1925, and might or might not have recalled it correctly decades later.

los detectores de mentiras, que normalmente miden las respuestas físicas relacionadas con la ansiedad y el estrés

It is important to remember that, as Ken Auletta wrote in his definitive Greed and Glory on Wall Street, "no reporter can with 100 percent accuracy re-create events that occurred some time before. Memories play tricks on participants, the more so when the outcome has become clear. A reporter tries to guard against inaccuracies by checking with a variety of sources, but it is useful for a reader—and an author—to be humbled by this journalistic limitation.

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.