Quotes About Precision

I prefer to think Of numbers not words Their precision Puts me at Ease with the Clarity of it all No grey no vagueness It's all so exact Like a trapeze Act with nothing left To chance Some say numbers are Naive since Things are simply Not that way Just look at pi In its futile try To become a number

These guys put the 'bone' in Zamboni

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

As the semantic engineer, your job is naming the parts and tightening nuts and bolts. I suggest you get back to your office and do that - right now!

Even in ordinary conversation, the ideas connected with the word Logic include at least precision of language, and accuracy of classification: and we perhaps oftener hear persons speak of a logical arrangement, or of expressions logically defined, than of conclusions logically deduced from premises.

definiteness and precision: details were not to be encountered with generalities, but with details. Nor could any progress be made, on such a subject, by merely showing that existing things were bad; it was necessary also to show how they might be made better. No great man whom we read of was qualified to do this thing except Bentham. He has done it, once and for everp .

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Her sense of pitch was near-perfect, and it was critical to the blimp speech.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

As he describes each mechanism in the brain, he shows how a modern computer could accomplish the same operation, despite the apparent differences. The brain's analog mechanisms can be simulated through digital ones because digital computation can emulate analog values to any desired degree of precision (and the precision of analog information in the brain is quite low).

cameras, the smart car is equipped with GPS-enabled projectiles, similar to a dart launcher and located near the front bumper of the vehicle. With the aid of a military-grade laser, a law enforcement agent can aim the GPS projectile at the target vehicle with tremendous precision. Once attached, the projectiles can track the target in real time for days.

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

Try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Our fingers are frustratingly accurate in using the information we give them. If we imagine sloppily, we play sloppily; if we imagine clearly and precisely, that is how we play.

Anything worth doing is equally worth doing properly. As well, anything worth saying is worth saying boldly (without fear, compromise or favour). ~Emeasoba George