Quotes About Accuracy

And, of course, as savvy readers can appreciate, when software developers say it's going to take a year to get something done, they really mean two years. It's not because they're incompetent, or that they are calendar-challenged, it's just that estimating the time to do something we've never done before is something we suck at. And, by nature, we're often optimistic animals.

Fix yourself something to drink, she said. I don't have any Mr. Pepper. You mean Dr. Pepper? For the love of God! She exploded. People expect everything from a psychic! 'Doctor,' 'mister,' I was close enough. I didn't call it 'Mrs. Salt,' did I?

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

of her—and so I know nothing about her, beyond what Frank told me. I tend to believe that his descriptions of her were truthful, only because he was so truthful. But just because he described your mother truthfully doesn't necessarily mean he described her accurately. I can only assume that she was like all of us—a complicated being, composed of more than one man's impressions.

M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn't true. Our memories are constructive. They're reconstructive. Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

Usually he overdid things, this time he got it right, or as right as something only equivocally right in itself can be got.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

you need to know that our interpreta- tion of the past can't be right.

Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

You can shoot a gun. You just can't hit anything you aim at.

Language is accurate: you run for your life. If you are dying, leave. If you are suffering, move. There is no other law, only movement.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me and asked me to hit it, I'd say the chances of me hitting it are about one in a million!

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.

What magazines do is curate: we give accurate and trustworthy information. If you have a problem, it's very difficult to go to the web and get accurate information... magazines, at their best, should be an incredible voyage of discovery.

If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.

A variety of list builders, universities and non-governmental orgainsations are focussing attention on the accuracy and reliability of information on Web sites.

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.