Quotes About Accuracy

When you see a roadside marker, take in what it tells but also ask, how might this be wrong? One giveaway is the use of qualifying phrases introducing statements of fact, as in: "According to tradition..." or "According to the legislature..." Visitors can count on the rest of such sentences to be unsubstantiated.

Surely, in history, "truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost.

PROOFREADER'S MARKS

a description. What Lucy had asserted to be true, therefore

Hardly ever driven. And that was partly true. It was hardly ever driven with the odometer cable connected.

guess I left the wrong hole empty." She leaned forward to examine her handiwork. "Not bad for my first time with a gun. I shot that sucker right in the gumpy.

Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.

Everything in 'The Tudors' is initially based on my historical research, and the fact is that the most unlikely scenes were the ones which were probably most based on reality. I prefer to be as real as possible, and there is so much of that story that you just can't make up.

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.

I have to say, I have never watched 'Infowars.' I know that they say zany things that are patently untrue. But I also think that MSNBC says zany things that are patently untrue.

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

A program that has not been tested does not work.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'