Quotes About Accuracy

Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

Its easy to research on the Internet, but its also easy to get the wrong answers. Not all that you read on Google is correct.

Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to be right, it just has to be close enough for government work. If they understand what you mean, it doesn't matter what you say or how you say it.

I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?

Facts matter a great deal to me.

It doesn't matter how tough you are. It doesn't matter how smart you are or what a great leader you are. None of that stuff matters if you can't put the ball where you have to put it.

I have one idiosyncrasy that helps my driving accuracy. I grip down on the club. This makes it easier to control the clubface.

I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

We guard the shooter. A lot of guys shoot way behind the 3-point line. We guard where the shooter is, not where the line is.

I want a for-profit company counting my vote because they know if they get it wrong, or if they get hacked, their value will plummet.

You young people learned spelling by the 'Close Enough' method.

4. Eyewitness testimony supports historical claims. Eyewitness testimony is usually stronger than a secondhand account.

Whatever else could be said of Eunice Park, she was perfectly true.

In carpentry, they say, "Measure twice, cut once." With data, "Think twice, calculate once.

Be doubly skeptical of graphs that have two vertical axes and omit zero from either or both axes.

The biblical Goliath was also a demon, which should tell you plenty about the accuracy of that little story, because it'd take a hell of a lot more than a stupid slingshot to take out a demon. (David actually lured Goliath under a cliff face and had some friends drop a big rock on him.)

He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he remembers it, However rudely spoken or unfit, Or else the tale he tells will be untrue, The things invented and the phrases new.

History suggests that we had very little hope until the social institutions of science arose. Before science, there was no apparent cumulative progress in the accuracy of human belief systems. After science, everything changed.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....