Quotes About Accuracy

One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.

My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Remember, if you don't get the question right, your answer doesn't matter.

And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.

On another memorable hunt, a lone mallard came in. Jase told Phil, "Let's let Willie take this one." Now, I know why he said it. Jase was convinced I would raise my gun and miss. Well, I raised my gun and folded it. Phil looked at Jase and said, "Ol' Willie's been practicing." We laughed and talked about my shot the entire morning.

He also had five 18-pounder siege guns as well as the dangerous rifled Whitworth gun that could crack a level shot a mile and more with terrifying accuracy.

When you say 'This is a bad thing that's happening,' how often are you wrong?

He was the first military remote viewer—the first man to transcend time and space for the purpose of viewing selected targets and collecting intelligence information. I learned early to rely on his counsel. What he said was always true: no lies, no exaggerations, no betrayal, and no ego.

you should wire him correct information

Quando dite qualcosa assicuratevi di averlo detto.

Later in conversation he corrected himself: It was in fact 1.1 million pigs. The difference might seem like just a rounding error, he told me, but if you ever had to kill an "extra" hundred thousand pigs and dispose of their bodies in bulldozed pits, you'd remember the difference as significant.

Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

Finding an answer that happens to fit is not the same as the right answer.

Volunteers transcribed sixty thousand words—the length of a short book—from old manuscripts to create what in machine learning language is called ground truth:

Don't feel useless. Even a spoilt clock is right twice a day.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

Ce qui la marqua le plus intensément fut le plaisir un peu ironique que l'on éprouve lorsqu'une prévision se vérifie, qu'un calcul tombe juste, qu'une intuition se trouve confirmée par les faits.

The Tudors hated to be wrong, and therefore never were.