Quotes About Accuracy

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

I'm not being mean, I'm telling the truth!

And authenticity's important. Not that authenticity beats imagination. The story still comes first. The universality of the story has to be there. But it doesn't hurt to get the details right.

The Bible cannot and does not contain errors, whether it is speaking of spiritual, historical, or other matters. It is correct in all that it affirms.

As to the one by Roll, I myself was once present at such a scene, complete in every detail, and I think the beauty of his picture is that it expresses such a situation so accurately, though one finds but very few of the details in it. I thought of a saying by Corot, "Il y a des tableaux où il n'y a rien et pourtant tout y est." [There are pictures in which there is nothing and yet everything is in them.]

Because when it comes to memories, what counts is not accuracy, but the feelings they call up.

In high art and pure science detail is everything.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

I could do a much better job (fewer mistakes) if I knew what the program is to be used for. The specifications don't tell me what I need to know (programmer).

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

All models are wrong," the statistician George Box observed, "but some are useful.

No matter at all, I replied; for the point is not who said the words, but whether they are true or not.

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Arts like carpentering, which have an exact measure, are to be regarded as higher than music, which for the most part is mere guess-work.