Quotes About Accuracy

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

Some people believe that Moore's Law will continue to be accurate until about 2015.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

I hear you say: 'All that is not /fact/ : it is poetry'. Nonsense! Bad poetry is false, I grant; but nothing is truer than true poetry. And let me tell the scientific men that the artists are much finer and more accurate observers than they are, except of the special minutiae that the scientific man is looking for.

It's easy to lie with statistics, but it's hard to tell the truth without them.

So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression "garbage in, garbage out.

Everybody knows 'technically' is the best kind of correct.

There are no composite characters or events in this book. I occasionally omitted people and events, but only when that omission had no impact on either the veracity or the substance of the story.

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

98% of all statistics are made up.

No one has a sorrier lot than the weatherman. He is ignored when he is right, but execrated when he is wrong.

Those who have had experience with type are aware of its satanic persistence towards error.

I am a very particular person about having all I write printed as I write it. I require to see a proof, a revise, a re-revise, and a double re-revise, or fourth-proof rectified impression of all my productions, especially verse. A misprint kills a sensitive author. An intentional change of his text murders him. No wonder so many poets die young!

Why can we land people on the Moon, machines on Mars and transfer trillions internationally, but can't figure out how to run efficient, accurate and fair elections?

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Women are marvellous at plodding through the centuries. They are exact, accurate and tireless. If you ever wish to discover some minute fact, buried away at the bottom of a bin of forgotten parchments, find a girl with horn-rimmed spectacles and straight hair and ask her to do it for you.

The truth is always the truth

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

no leas odas, hijo mío: lee los horarios de trenes. son más exactos.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.