Quotes About Accuracy

Our proverbs are sacred and correct.

Rumor is not always wrong. - from Life of Agricola

But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right.

I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.

If we really mean that people's votes are to be counted, the timelines ought to exist around what it takes to count every vote.

Come prepared because you don't want to dilute the votes out there because you are uninformed and you're spoon-fed something that's inaccurate, or you don't even bother to equip yourself with the facts - anybody out there, this goes for everyone.

As legislators, it's our job to create accessible voting systems that inspire confidence in the accuracy of tabulation and verifiability of results. It's also our job to make certain that the Board of Elections has every resource they need in order to carry out that purpose.

You just want to get it right so badly, so it's stressful when it comes to those vulnerable, dramatic scenes.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

People hate to go out to eat with me because they know I'm going to send it back. Like, I'm trying to order simple. But don't blame me if you bring out the wrong stuff.

I think the media's responsibility is to get to the bottom of things - to get to the truth.

The credit reporting system suffers from inaccuracy and often from outright injustice.

When I'm in the kitchen, measuring the amount of sugar, flour or butter I need for a recipe or cracking the exact number of eggs - I am in control.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

To suggest that all members of the Republican conference represent their district in a manner that's reflective of the makeup of their district would not be accurate.

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

Goodreads could be a source for knowledge but instead does all readers a supreme disservice by allowing the spread of false quotes on the Internet.

Imagine an inverted U-curve: as data initially becomes more available, decision accuracy improves; but beyond an inflection point of increasing information, the amount of data diminishes management's capacity to process the information and thus its ability to reach optimal decisions.20

Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.

If there are spelling and grammatical errors, assume that the same level of attention to detail probably went into the gathering and reporting of the facts given on the site.

And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.

exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline.