Quotes About Accuracy

A man who has been well trained will not in any case look for more accuracy than the nature of the matter allows; for to expect exact demonstration from a rhetorician is as absurd as to accept from a mathematician a statement only probable.

Abstract accuracy is no more to be expected in all philosophic treatises than in all products of art, and noble and just acts with which the art political is concerned admit of such great variation and of so many differences that they have been held to depend upon conventional rather than upon real distinctions.

Because Google is so popular, it's conceited. Have you tried misspelling something lately? See the tone that it takes? "Um, did you mean . . . ?"

A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. This means you are wrong - but how do you deal with that? Is there something wrong with the theory, or something wrong with the way you are doing the calculation?

Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.

I have always been a pretty accurate quarterback going back to high school and it is something that I have prided myself on.

I try to pride myself in having really quick feet and being able to set up and throw balls in time.

When I'm aggressive and things are moving quick and my feet are in place, I'm a better, more accurate thrower.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

I need to know everything inside quote marks is true.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.

There is a war on truth raging every day, and journalists have been forced to fight some of those.

I have always been someone who wants to get it right. That started when I ran for school board. It's an avocation that's become a full-time job.

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.

The general public still expects a lot more forecasting accuracy than any of us can deliver.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.