Quotes About Accuracy

The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.

I'm surprised when the ball doesn't go into the hoop. I think I should make every shot.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places...

As with everything else in the gospels, the story of Jesus's arrest, trial, and execution was written for one reason and one reason only: to prove that he was the promised messiah. Factual accuracy was irrelevant. What mattered was Christology, not history.

I wrote. Something. Yes. And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.

And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.

Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. There the authorities have etched the image of a black housefly into each urinal. It seems that men usually do not pay much attention to where they aim, which can create a bit of a mess, but if they see a target, attention and therefore accuracy are much increased.

why should we expect our collective memory – which we call history – to be any less fallible than our personal memory?

sometimes the most simple conclusion is also the most correct

Having an interpreter doesn't mean you are getting the right information. Immediately it should raise the red flag.

The essential thing is the truth, not arguments or complaints.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

Accuracy builds credibility.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.