Quotes About Precision

Just be aware that you reach a point of diminishing, or even negative, returns as the specifications get more and more detailed.

Tracer bullets show what you're hitting. This may not always be the target. You then adjust your aim until they're on target. That's the point. It's the same with tracer code.

Pragmatic Programmers, however, tend to prefer using tracer bullets.

You almost always get better results if you slow the process down and spend some time going through the steps

Just as woodworkers sometimes build jigs to guide the construction of complex pieces, programmers can write code that itself writes code.

Plan what you want to say. Write an outline. Then ask yourself, Does this get across whatever I'm trying to say? Refine it until it does.

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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Conciseness is underrated

The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.

You need demarcation. Demarcation? I asked. It means a clear separation between two things, he told me. A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.

It's hard to do, I said. Wes looked at me. What is? I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. Get it right.

Norman was never one for exactness, exactly.

Cher Mozart, Un professeur de complexite, voila ce que tu es.Avec precision, tu pointes les extremes qui nous composent, les tensions qui nous constituent. Aux esprits confus, tout est confus. Aux esprits clairs, tout est clair: meme ce qui leur echappe. Des lors, plus une intelligence est lumineuse, plus elle peut apprehender le mystere.

As it turns out, business writing is all about getting to the point and leaving out all of the noise. You think you already do that in your writing, but you probably don't. Consider

If all you know is how many times someone hit a target, it is loserthink to judge how accurate they are. You also need to know how many times they missed.

Good plans almost never contain the word somehow.

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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

But he is so exceedingly accurate, that, if he only fancies he has said a word too precipitate, or too general, or only half true, he never ceases to qualify, to modify, and extenuate, till at last he appears to have said nothing at all.

Wer das erste Knopfloch verfehlt, kommt mit dem Zuknöpfen nicht zu Rande.