Quotes About Accuracy

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever has been written about me, about football, about my private life.

Most of us think that we are 'better than average' in most things. We are also 'miscalibrated,' meaning that our sense of the probability of events doesn't line up with reality. When we say we are sure about a certain fact, for example, we may well be right only half the time.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

The people who fund the arts, provide the arts, and research the arts have all produced a consensus about the value of what they do, which hardly anyone challenges. But do the numbers add up? For all the claims made about the arts, how accurate are they?

Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion.

The numbers I've shot, the percentages, they obviously are what they are and people are going to dissect everything but, I honestly feel like they're all going to go in when I shoot the ball.

We do ourselves a disservice when we self-servingly massage the record.

When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie.

I'm trying to learn to ask myself: 'Before you dive in are you sure you are right?' It's always safe to assume I'm wrong.

I have an eye for detail.

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

Without facts you can't have truth.

There's no such thing as alternative facts.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

I don't mind anybody coming after me as long as they're coming with facts.

To do a movie about someone who actually lived gives you two responsibilities. You have to try to be accurate to the facts of what he did and what he was like as a character. Then, at the same time, you have a responsibility to make a movie that entertains and can get an audience.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

I don't give false claims any due.