Quotes About Precision

There I could look at heads cut open in various ways, innumerable ways, the whole machinery drawn and colored with the utmost precision. I especially loved the pictures of brains, whose different coils were distinguished by every color of the rainbow. Many years later, when in an anatomy lab I saw a real brain for the first time, I was surprised (though of course I knew better) that it was so drab a thing.

I do not do schtick. What I do are organized routines and connected schtick— schtick upon schtick upon schtick until we have a piece of carpentry

The more specific I am about the details I am concerned with as I pray, the better the results.

La vita di un puntuale è un inferno di solitudini immeritate

Scrutinise three times; act once. Young people don't always grasp this. Being slow and faultless is better than being quick and final.

When somebody says something that's correct, he has no need to look good.

You do the big things by doing the little things right.

Music, in the precision of its form and the mathematical tyranny of its laws, escapes into an eternity of abstraction and an absurd sublime that is everywhere and nowhere at once.

Las teorías cuánticas han resultado ser notablemente precisas en la predicción de acontecimientos a dichas escalas, y también reproducen las predicciones de las viejas teorías clásicas cuando son aplicadas al mundo macroscópico de la vida corriente.

La mayoría de las constantes fundamentales que aparecen en las teorías están ajustadas con tanta precisión que si su valor cambiara aunque sólo fuera ligeramente el universo sería cualitativamente diferente, y en la mayoría de los casos resultaría inadecuado para el desarrollo de la vida.

The truth is in the details.

Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.

You cant be too careful on a skateboard.

Definition is a choice.

The basic structure of the universe is balanced on a razor's edge for life to exist

I love to feel a racing car around me, to feel the way it holds me. I love to make it do all that it was built to do, and then a little bit more.

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

When great musicians practice, they go slowly enough that errors are avoided. When an error does crop up, expert practicers fix those errors immediately. That's the strategy: fixing a mistake immediately. Anybody can do it, and anybody who adopts that strategy will get better faster than those who don't.

Version 1.3, Java has allowed for extended precision on platforms that support it. This can introduce extremely small-valued and arcane differences in the results of high-precision operations. Most applications would never notice this, but if you want to ensure that your application produces exactly the same results on different platforms, you can use the special keyword strictfp as a class modifier on the class containing the floating-point manipulation

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

the maximum number of syllables in the minimum number of seconds,

It takes fastidiousness to write code that doesn't just do the right thing but also says the right thing.

The behavior of running code is unambiguous.

This degree of fine-tuning is so great that it's as if right after the universe beginning someone could have destroyed the possibility of life within it by subtracting a single dime's mass from the whole of the observable universe or adding a single dime's mass to it.