Quotes About Accuracy

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.

Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production Fifth Estate's portrayal of the Guardian's work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint.

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.

I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

I don't believe Wikipedia about anything. I don't go there for anything but keywords.

I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.

The accuracy of Wikipedia can be dodgy in some places, but in maths, it's really quite good.

Wikipedia's funny. Some of the stuff on there - I go there occasionally - it's unbelievable the amount of stuff that people will write on there.

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

Players who win on a clay surface are those who can control the ball, playing steadily and accurately from the back-court, keeping the ball in play and moving it around with changes of speed and spin, and resisting the temptation to over-hit.

The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.

The stuff we have been told off record tends to be the stuff that is true and the stuff we are told on record on camera tends to be the stuff that is not so true.

You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!