Quotes About Accuracy

The business of the historian is with the truth of things, but he is too much under temptation to make his history interesting, to be always able to reject a fine story.

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you've spoken the truth.

Averages are bad measures. I want to see actuals, highs, lows and why—not an average. An average is just lazy.

Mark's shots fell through the metallic hoop, "but how many of them have that kind of accuracy?

when we lose our commitment to accuracy, honesty, and justice, we lose our ability to make a difference, because we also lose our vision of what is possible. Harlan

Oscar Wilde's "beautiful untrue things" that save the imagination from falling into "careless habits of accuracy.

The point is rather that, so far as Wittgenstein can see, Pascal offers a description of a certain state of affairs without genuinely submitting to the constraints which the endeavor to provide an accurate representation of reality imposes. Her fault is not that she fails to get things right, but that she is not even trying.

Personally, I don't have a Twitter account. I like to be in control of the way the stand up of Stewart Lee is perceived, I don't want to have to engage with individual people. Also, when I do look at it, loads of factually inaccurate things about me are written.

Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.

The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

The best traders are not right more than they are wrong. They are quick adjusters. They are better at getting right when they are wrong.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

There are many penalties which referees don't see. Sometimes they are right, and many other times, they are wrong. That is football.