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Quotes About Accuracy

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
~ Mark Twain
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.
~ Mark Twain
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
~ Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)
~ Mark Twain
Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!
~ Murray Walker
It's not a stereotype if it's always true.
~ Daniel Tosh
Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.
~ Stephen Colbert
Let's stop the startwatch.
~ Murray Walker
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
~ Mark Twain
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.
~ Eugene Ormandy
... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds
~ Murray Walker
The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.
~ Jerry Coleman
DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.
~ Jerry Coleman
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.
~ Jerry Coleman
The information was correct but the interpretations were not.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.
~ Murray Walker
I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
~ Roscoe Arbuckle
I may not always be right, but when I am, I admit it
~ Unknown
Good shot.""Not really. I was aiming for his balls.
~ Unknown
The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
~ Nikola Tesla
Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.
~ Paul Samuelson
It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
~ Niels Bohr
The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.
~ James Hansen