Quotes About Accuracy

When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

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

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.

Websites that collect quotes are full of mistakes and never check original sources.

If the teacher is correct only 60 percent of the time, the student neural net will still learn its lessons with an accuracy approaching 100 percent.

I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.

I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

I am trying to be a lot more careful - and to not miss easy balls.

I try to choose my words carefully, and only say what I mean and mean what I say.

The age of the universe is not just 'a guess', but rather it is a carefully measured number that is now known to a high degree of accuracy.

I never casually shoot shots, ever. I shoot the same way every time. I shoot the same shots that I'd shoot during the game.

There are certain things you have to do to make a pass.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.

You check off stories to make sure if they're true or if they're right.

I'm accurate and I can land on anyone's chin.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Most rock movies are never authentic - you'll have someone supposedly in 1958 playing a 1990 guitar, and a 1986 microphone.

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.