Quotes About Precision

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.

Producing a quality product efficiently: that must be the goal. It sure sounds good. "Quality and efficiency." Those are two nice words. Kind of like "Mom and apple pie.

a measurement not clearly defined is worse than useless.

Jane pivoted in her desinger shoes and pressed one side of the double doors open with her fingertips; solid oak swung away from her touch, hung so perfectly it moved like rice paper.

He coded like some people danced, glitter-eyed concentration and confident grace and never a hesitation.

He did not need the watch, the glance, or the gesture. He knew the time, it ticked out within him with atomic regularity. But the ceremony pleased him nonetheless.

Her needles clicked and flashed triumphantly as her eyes came back from their journeying and fixed themselves upon her work for that one knitting event for which their regard was necessary- the turning of the heel.

Please inform His Excellency that his use of the word soon is inaccurate," she said coldly. "It means in a timely manner, which, in my case, obviously no longer applies.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

Golf is hockey at the halt.

Empowerment comes from precision, precision, precision; from language that harpoons the exact meaning, the nuance, for the intended audience.

The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow.

F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently precise. They will have much more difficulty showing by investigation what, precisely, I mean if I am vague. I hope not to be forced to weasel out with 'But I didn't really mean that.' Social theorists should prefer to be wrong rather than misunderstood. Being misunderstood shows sloppy theoretical work.

The present cut cleanly, like a scalpel.

era preciso y fiable como una navaja suiza.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything--a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps--the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

More haste, less speed.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.