Quotes About Accuracy

Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.

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

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

Feel is a lot more important than accuracy.

it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee

We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

I wish social disparity has long gone, people can be genuine, and news can be fact-based and error-free.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

If you truly want students to take an interest in American history, then stop lying to them.

One thing the Bible does not do: it does not denigrate the mind. The Bible is not anti-intellectual. Rather it gives the reason why all of us know what we know, why we can think with some degree of accuracy, and why we fail to think with complete accuracy.

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought." However strong his opinions and theories, Bash?'s primary allegiance was to the living moment and its accurate, full-hearted presentation. Of the formal requirements of haiku, he said, "If you have three or four, even five or seven extra syllables but the poem still sounds good, don't worry about it. But if one syllable stops the tongue, look at it hard.

In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?

I'm obsessed with trying to recount events as accurately and honestly as possible, but in practice the only thing I'm really any good at is telling you how I feel.

The solution: Break the big thing into smaller things. The smaller it is, the easier it is to estimate. You're probably still going to get it wrong, but you'll be a lot less wrong than if you estimated a big project. If something takes twice as long as you expected, better to have it be a small project that's a couple weeks over rather than a long one that's a couple months over.

Welcome to the world of translation—a compromised world of half-rights and half-wrongs.

Ninety-three percent of American motorists believe they are better-than-average drivers. In a 2007 BusinessWeek poll, 90 percent of the managers surveyed believed their performance in the workplace to be in the top 10 percent.4

So to clarify the feedback under the label we need to "be specific" about two things: (1) where the feedback is coming from, and (2) where the feedback is going.

Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.

A valid study rests upon the reliable collection of data. If the data collection method is not reliable, then the resulting study cannot be considered valid. Collecting the "right" data is essential for a study is to be considered as valid.

Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of.