Quotes About Accuracy

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

If you work in a certain manner, you don't make mistakes.

Although no one loves a typo, it's close to impossible to eradicate every single little mistake in a manuscript.

Do we have to believe something happened exactly the way it was shown by artists?

In design, one of the most difficult activities is to get the specifications right:

We are creative and imaginative, not mechanical and precise. Machines require precision and accuracy; people don't. And we are particularly bad at providing precise and accurate inputs. So

A conceptual model is an explanation, usually highly simplified, of how something works. It doesn't have to be complete or even accurate as long as it is useful.

Unless it is your ambition to become a nightclub performer and amaze people with great skills of memory, here is a simpler way to dramatically enhance both memory and accuracy: write things down. Writing is a powerful technology: why not use it? Use a pad of paper, or the back of your hand. Write it or type it. Use a phone or a computer. Dictate it. This is what technology is for. The unaided mind is surprisingly limited. It is things that make us smart. Take advantage of them.

Our strengths are in our flexibility and creativity, in coming up with solutions to novel problems. We are creative and imaginative, not mechanical and precise. Machines require precision and accuracy; people don't. And we are particularly bad at providing precise and accurate inputs. So why are we always required to do so? Why do we put the requirements of machines above those of people?

You are fake news.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded.

I give only one example of the falsity of gossip and hearsay, and I urge my readers to beware of incredible tales, however widely they might be believed and instead to believe the unvarnished truth.

Vicky cost the taxpayers sixty-five million dollars, and she couldn't predict the time an hour from now. I

Let us never forget that truth, distorted and exaggerated, can become the mother of the most dangerous heresies.

It has been noted that one needs only 39 digits of Pi to make a circle the size of the observable universe accurate to one atom of hydrogen.

His eye quickly found the crisp red dot of the Aimpoint Micro sight and he pressed the trigger.

While speed was important, doing it right was more important.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

I do a great deal of research. I don't want anyone to say, 'That could not have happened.' It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

Dos y dos son cuatro, pero no a veces, ¡Sino siempre!

You cannot bullshit the stopwatch.

RESEARCH INDICATES THAT A WOMAN'S INTUITIVE SENSE OF WHETHER OR NOT HER PARTNER WILL BE VIOLENT TOWARD HER IS A SUBSTANTIALLY MORE ACCURATE PREDICTOR OF FUTURE VIOLENCE THAN ANY OTHER WARNING SIGN.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.