Quotes About Accuracy

leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.

I'm fond of that little scene. Whether my memory is completely accurate or not, it has a sharpness that nothing I look at now can possibly have.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren't very good at it.

Chapter 10 Precision and Professionalism

A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on. —CORDELL HULL, secretary of state to President Franklin Delano R

Economists, market advisers, political oracles, and clairvoyants all know this basic rule by heart: if you can't forecast right, forecast often.

Nostradamus wasn't often right, but he sure was often.

Our task is not to whitewash nor bloat the truth. Our task is to tell the truth. Period.

It's always 'a thousand years' in stories, even if it was eight hundred ten or fourteen hundred eighty. 'A thousand years' is dramatic, and drama means more to people than accuracy, I'll tell you that for free. That's how you get throngs of obedient morons, while the educated have to work doubly hard to keep records accurate. Historians and librarians have saved more lives than Healers.

Paul and Elder remind us: Critical thinkers are clear as to the purpose at hand and the question at issue. They question information, conclusions and point of view. They strive to be clear, accurate, precise, and relevant. They seek to think beneath the surface, to be logical and fair. They apply these skills to their reading and writing as well as to their speaking and listening. Critical thinking

Q: Why bother doing proofs about programming languages? They are almost always boring if the definitions are right. A: The definitions are almost always wrong. - Anonymous

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They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.

Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.

La Ciencia en ningún momento está totalmente en lo cierto, pero rara vez está completamente equivocada y tiene en general mayores posibilidades de estar en lo cierto que las teorías no científicas.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand. I would rather be reported by my bitterest enemy among philosophers than by a friend innocent of philosophy.

If we are going to believe God, our plumb line for measuring the accuracy of biblical concepts must be the Bible itself, not what we've seen or heard.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.