Quotes About Accuracy

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

The polls told us that Hillary Clinton was going to win, and she didn't. I wasn't fooled by the polls.

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

I've said for many, many years, as long as I can ever remember, when I'm asked, 'Hey, what do you look for first in a quarterback?' The first thing I look for is accuracy, because the rest of it doesn't matter.

I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

As a shooter, the one thing you want to be is consistent.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.

Film has to reflect the real world.

I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.

It was the pressure of being told two things: 1. That I only had a short amount of time, and 2. That I had to get everything right.

the only thing of any use is the truth.

The right data delivered at the right time represents a valuable source of feedback, the kind that doesn't lie!

software people are terrible at estimating, because humans are terrible at estimating. Let's not just try harder. Let's find a better way.

The biblical prophets were always 100 percent accurate. If a prophet was less than 100 percent accurate, he was stoned to death as a false prophet (Deuteronomy 13; 18:20-22).

The reality is that Bible translation is not an easy task.

According to Pulitzer Prize-winning truth-checkers Politifact, a firm which compares each candidate's statements to evidence, Trump's statements were verifiably false 76 percent of the time when he ran for office in 2016.

Look, alternative facts aren't facts, they're falsehoods

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. Anna Jameson