Quotes About Accuracy

I make sure my lip sync is correct. It's a long process. But I enjoy it.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

It was a repetition of the familiar Communist pattern of seizing upon some incident, justifiably or otherwise, and embroidering thereon without regard to truth and accuracy to form the basis for an almost hysterical campaign of vituperation," Marshall concluded wearily.

You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

We don't have to stop inventing abstract models that describe the behavior of imaginary Econs. We do, however, have to stop assuming that those models are accurate descriptions of behavior, and stop basing policy decisions on such flawed analyses.

predictions can't vary more than the thing being forecast.

If you will only ask yourself, "Is what I am being told really true?," it is amazing how much you can find is, or borders on, being false, even in a well-developed field!

Glaisher emphasised the particular scientific virtues required by ballooning: meticulous care and accuracy, calmness and detachment, stoic self-discipline; and a kind of spiritual openness to the wonders of Creation.

he wrote in retirement: "Two magnitudes are complementary when the measurement of one of them prevents the accurate simultaneous measurement of the other.

Humour is a poor substitution for accuracy, and a poorer proxy for truth

Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.

When the performance system is made clear, decision-making becomes more accurate.

Thor. The goddess scoffed. If you want someone who can navigate one hundred and seventy channels of HD content, go to Thor. If you want someone who can accurately send people through the Nine Worlds, he's not your guy.

It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.

cuanto más sencillas son las cosas, menos errores se cometen.

a budget was like a newspaper gossip column: most of it could be fiction, because no one ever knew the truth.

Lanzar una bomba desde un avión en movimiento y lograr que impactara contra un barco en movimiento, o dejar caer un torpedo de manera que alcanzara un buque, revestía una dificultad increíble, sobre todo para un piloto al que estaban disparando desde arriba y desde abajo.

I could now (possibly) go back and restretch those shrunken hours, flake the images separate, arrange them in accurate chronological order, (possibly; with will-power, patience, and the proper chemicals) but being accurate is not necessarily being honest.... Nor is chronological reporting by any means always the most truthful (each camera has its own veracity) especially when, in all good faith, one cannot truthfully claim to remember what happened accurately....

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen