Quotes About Accuracy

Every organization should strive to achieve the 3 Rs of Business: Everyone doing the Right things, Doing them Right, and at the Right time.

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly

I have learned to be suspicious of memory--my own, anyone's--but to accord it considerable respect. Whether accurate or not, it can subvert a life.

The erosion of accurate historicity is disconcerting: One scholar casts Washington in a Deistic mold. The next goes further and states—without citing evidence—that he didn't even go to church. What will the next generation of scholars claim? This ignorance of the facts is what requires us to pursue our question concerning Washington's religion by constant interaction with his own written words and the unquestionable records of his actions.

The town maps in the 1939 [Michelin] guide were so accurate they were used by the Allied forces in 1944 during the liberation of France.

If we do not require a calendar to be geared to a tropical year (earth's orbit), but only that it be geared to some part of the celestial clock, then the Maya calendar was more accurate than the Julian calendar, more accurate than the Babylonian (solar-lunar) calendar; it intermeshed the gear wheels of Sun, Moon and Venus, and was based on a more accurate gear ratio than the other calendars, repeating itself only once in 52 years.

Jason Dill held the pencil beam steadily.

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?

He asks the 80 students to respond based on their 'gut feeling'. Again, students are given five options, ranging from 'less than 1%' to 'above 40%'. About half of them believe the true answer is less than 5%, of which plenty go for the 'less than 1%' option. Only 1 in 6 get it right, picking the highest option: it turns out that the true figure is 41%. He invites those people – 13 in total – to stand up.

Even in the middle of a crisis, he had to be accurate.

Journalism is just the facts." He had been learning about journalism at school, from a textbook, and it seemed to him that his father had abridged some basic journalistic principle. "But which facts?" Arthur asked him. "Which facts do we print, Ishmael?

Google: the selective use of polygraphs

The truth doesn't have to advertise itself. All the truth needs to be is true.

The truth. Really the Truth.

Writers are asked, 'How could you know so much about [fill in the profession]?' The answer, if the writing satisfies, is that one makes it up. And the job, my job, as a dramatist, was not to write accurately, but to write persuasively. If and when I do my job well, subsequent cowboys, as it were, will talk like me.

An automobile piston should be round; but this phrase means nothing unless there is a way to measure the roundness of a particular piston.

Women tended to be more docile and patient, so went the belief, and could be depended upon more than men to check and recheck the accuracy of their calculations. A typical picture of the Galton Biometrical Laboratory under Karl Pearson would have Pearson and several men walking around, looking at output from the computers or discussing deep mathematical ideas, while all about them rows of women were computing.

Close' only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons

only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons

I see you're closer to on time than usual!

I would say my accuracy is probably the best thing that I can do.

I always sidefooted the ball as I wanted to keep the accuracy on it but I was quite fortunate that I could sidefoot a ball powerfully.

I think I throw the ball down the field pretty well, but I think I'm really accurate and make good decisions.