Quotes About Accuracy

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.

I used to have an aunty who read tea leaves. She was incredibly accurate.

Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.

Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten it true.

We receive life by coming to Him. The life that is on a solid foundation is not just one that understands doctrine accurately, but is one that is joined to the Word Himself. It is not just knowing the Book of the Lord, but knowing the Lord of the Book. However, because He is Truth, we must love the truth and be passionately devoted to accuracy of doctrine as well.

Tis true, Dr. Buzzard, that a silver bullet must be of the largest and heaviest sort to travel with any amount o' range or accuracy. But after yon hellhound took no notice o' my challenge or my first discharge, I said what was fitting with lead buckshot well-washed with silver that I've got from the most particular little shop in Birmingham. It didn't like it.

Reviews and the show's own publicity always stressed its "realism." There is no doubt it

Be as precise as possible about your need for aid.

But it comes down to this: in deciding whether a possibility is correct, people typically look for hits rather than misses;

the most important feature of a map is the degree of correspondence between the elements in the map and the elements of the territory they represent.

Being told by way of aggravation, that he had eaten half a dozen plumbs, Nay truly, sister, (answers he simply to her) I have eaten half a score. So perfect an enemy was he to a lie, that he had rather accuse himself of another fault, than be suspected to be guilty of that.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

But I can write my tests later", you say. No, you can't. Not really. Oh, you can write some tests later. You can even approach high coverage later if you are careful to measure it. But the tests you write after the fact are defense. Tests you write first are offense. After-the-fact tests are written by someone who is already vested in the code and already knows how the problem was solved. There's just no way those tests can be anywhere near as incisive as tests written first.

What this team did not realize was that having dirty tests is equivalent to, if not worse than, having no tests.

Cuteness in code often appears in the form of colloquialisms or slang. For example, don't use the name whack() to mean kill(). Don't tell little culture-dependent jokes like eatMyShorts() to mean abort(). Say what you mean. Mean what you say.

Am I suggesting 100% test coverage? No, I'm not suggesting it. I'm demanding it. Every single line of code that you write should be tested. Period.

You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected.

Ward's principle: "You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected.

Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.

Programmers must avoid leaving false clues that obscure the meaning of code.

This is the trouble with internet research, in my experience. The proportion of what's useful to what's dross dwindles very quickly, and suddenly it's like searching for something dropped down the back of a sofa and coming up with handfuls of old coins, buttons, fluff, and sucked sweets. What's important is to ask the right question, and