Quotes About Accuracy

A scientist may be able to measure coolness in terms of the temperature on registered on a thermometer; but no matter how accurate that measurement is, it still cannot capture the delight of a summer breeze.

Inaccurate estimates are a failure of information, not of values or principles. If the numbers are wrong, fix the numbers and communicate the consequences.

Actually," Joe said, "you're right on time.

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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.

Maybe I'm obsessed with numbers because they always tell a story and unlike people, they never lie.

Clementine nudges my shoulder. "I firmly believe you could hit eleven out of ten targets, with only nine bullets." I snort-laugh. "What?" she says. "It's true. I also believe you could cut a knife with butter." This time, everyone snort-laughs.

Spo?ítala jsem to. Jsem si na osmdesát tÃ…â"¢i procent jistá, že m?j výpo?et je na stoprocent správný.

telemetry is what enables us to assemble our best understanding of reality and detect when our understanding of reality is incorrect.

the %C/A can be obtained by asking downstream customers what percentage of the time they receive work that is 'usable as is,' meaning that they can do their work without having to correct the information that was provided, add missing information that should have been supplied, or clarify information that should have and could have been clearer.

Reports for the bureau always got to have all the i 's dotted and the t 's crossed.

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

If, on the eve of the war, a fortune teller had pointed to all the Australian men between the ages of 20 and 30, and had predicted that a number equal to 60 per cent of that age group would be killed or permanently disabled in the coming war, she would have been ridiculed but she would have been correct.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying

The men crashed back through the store and Peter moved right to the racks of weapons. He pulled down a gorgeous high-powered rifle that was equipped with a sophisticated scope for sighting. "Ain't it a crime!" he ejaculated. "What?" Steve asked, confused by the man's sudden outburst. "The only person who could ever miss with this gun," Peter said, looking through the telescope, "is the sucker with bread enough to buy it.

analogue computers are stupidly named; they should be named continuous computers." For real-world questions—especially ambiguous ones—analog computing can be faster, more accurate, and more robust, not only at computing the answers, but also at asking the questions and communicating the results.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

Almost every cost estimate made by a physicist is wildly wrong, and the better the physicist the worse it is (Herb York).

I have to make my drawing right so that my drawing will be right.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

The real point of the matter is that what we call a 'wrong datum' is one which is inconsistent with all other known data. It is our only criterion for right and wrong.