Quotes About Accuracy

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.

It is good that these terrorists are now facing justice, but in the reporting of the case, it would be helpful if the media didn't help them with their propaganda mission by unquestioningly repeating false information about their detention.

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

When it comes to efficiency, standardized tests almost sound heaven-sent.

Economics could not be an exact science, because the number of variables was too great, and stability of variables over time could not be guaranteed. As he was to put it later, it is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Political and economic experts, for example, actually do worse than dart-throwing monkeys when it comes to making long-term predictions.

but there was no way he could hold a target

We have Dragon [dictation software]," one primary care doctor said, "which you have to be careful of, because I just [dictated] 'Patient's prostate is bothering him' and it turned out 'Patient's prostitute is bothering him.

feelings are "true" if the judgments they encode are accurate

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. —Henry David Thoreau

A complaint had to be true and specific

But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame of reference. We try to fit the information we receive into schemas, units of knowledge that we possess about the world that correspond with frequently encountered situations, individuals, ideas, and situations. In other words, we often see things as we expect to see them, or want to see them, and not always as they are.

like swatting flies with a laser cannon. The aim's a bit tricky, but it sure takes care of the flies.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day,' and this is one of the times I'm right.

if he claimed there was a rock in a road at a certain point in a story, his readers knew that if they went to that spot they would find the rock

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

Facts are stupid things.

And so, yes. The Tidy Magic that Cory read was different from the Tidy Magic that Annabelle read, and different, too, from the book that Aikon thought she wrote and her critics on Twitter condemned—and yet all these books were accurate, complete and perfect, just as they are.