Quotes About Accuracy

Shooting from outside the box, it would be nice to get a few more goals from outside the box.

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

I have, for instance, silently corrected Jefferson's frequent use of "it's" for "its" and "recieve" for "receive

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Would you write 'A Happy Birthday' on it for me?

Para decidir si algo está 'bien' o 'mal', tenemos una regla muy sencilla: la redacción debe ser verdadera. Debemos escribir lo que vemos, lo que oímos, lo que hacemos.

Pour décider si c'est "Bien" ou "Pas bien", nous avons une règle très simple: la composition doit être vraie. Nous devons décrire ce qui est, ce que nous voyons, ce que nous entendons, ce que nous faisons.

Let's face it, our memories aren't perfect. We don't get anything exactly right.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

All the news that's fit to print.

There is a responsibility when you're representing a historical figure, and you want to be as accurate as possible, but you also want to breathe life into the character.

Investigative journalism is never mass-based; it's very focused, and you want people who are passionate about it to take it.

Once you get past 100, it is all about not making a mistake.

At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

I didn't take many penalties, but I never missed one.

When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.