Quotes About Accuracy

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

TIME Magazine probably publishes many facts, but since its founding in the early 1920's I have been on the spot eight or nine times when something that wound up as a news story in TIME happened. Not once—not once—did the TIME Magazine story match what I saw and heard.

In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write sensational stories that sell newspapers.

You don't have to explain something you didn't say.

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You cannot hit two targets with one arrow. If your thoughts stray, you miss your enemies' heart. Mind and arrow must become one.

There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been able to make it.

I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on.

It was important to get things right, especially if you were going to make sayings out of them.

If it was 200 Kelvin outside why not say so, rather than talk about witches' tits and the like

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

I'm like a rifle that's a little out of date but very accurate: when I love, there's a strong recoil, back to childhood, and it hurts.

First, if you want reliable information, pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product.

truth" is defined by the top results of the Google search.

the media should keep things in perspective and avoid hysteria.

In a recent experiment a computer algorithm correctly diagnosed 90 per cent of lung cancer cases presented to it, while human doctors had a success rate of only 50 per cent.

if you want reliable information, pay good money for it.

That's the trouble with lies. Sometimes it's hard to keep them straight.

Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.

Las primeras impresiones, que se toman en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, son las más poderosas. De los recientes estudios se deduce que las primeras impresiones y juicios rápidos son a menudo los más acertados.

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.