Quotes About Accuracy

At Lockwood & Co., George was famous for not being able to throw or catch with any accuracy. Back in the kitchen at Portland Row, even the casual passing out of fruit or bags of chips became an exercise fraught with danger.

we chose our samples so that they would be truly representative of the respective population.

It takes fastidiousness to write code that doesn't just do the right thing but also says the right thing.

The behavior of running code is unambiguous.

when Melanchthon recalled it, although, as we have said, he was not yet in Wittenberg when it happened, and was really only recounting the recollections of others who had been there. So when he did, he was speaking in the way so many of us do when remembering things: we aren't telling an untruth but conflating things in a way that is not perfectly and literally accurate, specifically to make a larger point, and, as good fiction does, to tell a greater truth.

Planning and forecasting are only accurate when based on a long, stable operating history and a relatively static environment. Startups have neither.

The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality.

In this case some living creature must have seen the earth from a great height. The account is too accurate to have been the product of pure imagination. Who could have possibly said that the land looked like porridge and the sea like a water trough if some conception of the globe from above had not existed? Because the earth actually does look like a jigsaw puzzle of porridge and water troughs from a great height.

You'll know if she's doing them right," the medicine cat called over her shoulder, "because she'll complain!

When a golfer has completed his left-hand grip, the V formed by the thumb and forefinger should point to his right eye.

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

We were more likely to see an unfair or inaccurate story from journalists who did not usually cover the Fed and were, consequently, less well informed.

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Half a truth is often a great lie

He that speaks much is much mistaken.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written - assume that the information in the book is at least a year older than the copyright date, and possibly two.

Q1 is the easiest quarter to make. If you miss your Q1, regardless of the type of revenue you have, you aren't going to make your revenue plan for the year because your budget process isn't accurate.

I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

The CBO is the only group that makes the weatherman's ten-day forecast look like exact science. They seem to miss their projections with extreme regularity.