Quotes About Precision

Details aren't automatically interesting.

An edge of a sword is made as much from the steel taken away as the steel that is left

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Power

As Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference

Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.

Saying of the sport

Curlers rock and roll!

Curlers do it hard.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

little things done well consistently can have big effects—has merit.

What Roop says is correct. That thermometer hasn't worked in years." Sanger paused, looking around for Hansom before continuing. Not seeing the goatfish, he proceeded confidently, "Actually, I daresay my own studies have found the instrument to be so imprecise that it is my professional opinion that the temperature is just as likely to be going down as to be going up!

You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!

Amplification through simplification.

A slightly tipsy mathematician got home at 3 a.m. His wife was upset and yelled, "You're late! You said you'd be home by 11:45." The mathematician replied, "No, I am precisely on time. I said I'd be home by a quarter of twelve.

I am not the target. I am the archer. My shafts are tipped with truth and they stick deep.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

We talk about "awe and wonder," but those are two different words. I am in awe of the universe: its scope, its complexity, its depth, its meticulous precision. But my primary feeling is wonder. Awe has connotations of reverence: "this fills me with awe and I am not worthy." Wonder has connotations of curiosity: "this fills me with wonder and I am going to figure it out." I will take wonder over awe every day.

You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.