Quotes About Accuracy

3. Be careful of Web research. Be wary of what you find on the Web. After all, it was Abraham Lincoln who said, "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they were genuine.

You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

Look at the putt from behind the hole. Everyday players almost never do this. They should! Your eyes will take in more information about the slope. Sometimes you'll find that your initial read was incorrect.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.

The Wii is fun, but nothing feels all that accurate or precise. I don't want to play an action game with controls that sloppy.

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.

I spent five years in Italy, and the Italians have a slightly different lifestyle. Everything is a bit slower and more easygoing. You can feel that when you live there; you become a little more relaxed about typically 'German' things like accuracy and punctuality.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

'Outlander' is based on a group of books; there's a slight fantasy element to it, but ours is authentic - we try to stick to historical accuracy as possible. Ours is about a small group of people and a core relationship rather than big armies.

I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

Peter Schmeichel could make the goal look much smaller when you glanced up to hit a shot.

I could throw the ball hard, but at this level if you're not accurate, it's easy for batters to light you up with home runs. That's when I started concentrating on making my movements more compact. It just seemed to me that smaller movements would produce the kind of pitching I desired.

Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

Chaos doesn't mean that the system is behaving randomly, it means that it is unpredictable because it has many variables, it is too complex to measure, and even if it could be measured, theoretically the measurement cannot be done accurately and the tiniest inaccuracy would change the end result an enormous amount.

Facts! Stick to the facts! That gets rid of 99 per cent of everything anyone's ever said or written, which cuts your homework down to a nice manageable size, doesn't it? Sniff out the truth!

Qualsiasi studente nell'ora di fisica può provare con esperimenti l'esattezza di un'ipotesi scientifica. L'uomo, invece, vivendo una sola vita, non ha alcuna possibilità di verificare un'ipotesi mediante un esperimento, e perciò non saprà mai se avrebbe dovuto o no dare ascolto al proprio sentimento.

A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.

Despite an appearance of infallibility, computer projections are not prescient. —TICIA CENVA, former leader of the Sorceresses of Rossak

The largest, longest study of experts' economic forecasts was performed by Philip Tetlock, a professor at the Haas Business School of the University of California–Berkeley. He studied 82,000 predictions over 25 years by 300 selected experts. Tetlock concludes that expert predictions barely beat random guesses. Ironically, the more famous the expert, the less accurate his or her predictions tended to be.

research analysts were increasingly paid to be bullish rather than accurate. In one celebrated incident, an analyst who had the chutzpah to recommend that Trump's Taj Mahal bonds be sold because they were unlikely to pay their interest was summarily fired by his firm after threats of legal retaliation from "The Donald" himself. (Later, the bonds did default.)