Quotes About Precision

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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art…

Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them. It trained them to shoot skeet.

ahead of Chicago time, and tells a Chicago friend that it is twelve

I think a lot of our bad habits are simply the result of being in too big a hurry to do a thing right to start with.

A masterpiece is never created in a hurry.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

We learn to understand why our addled minds seize so little with precision, why they are caught up and tossed about in a kind of tarantella by headlines and catch-words, why so often they cannot tell things apart or discern identity in apparent differences.

There is economy in this. For the attempt to see all things freshly and in detail, rather than as types and generalities, is exhausting, and among busy affairs practically out of the question. In

I protest, for about the hundredth time, against the slipshod method of quoting a mere author's name, without any indication of the work of that author in which the alleged quotation may be found. Let us have accurate quotations and exact references, wherever such are to be found. A quotation without a reference is like a geological specimen of unknown locality.

Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.

Jasprit Bumrah has the best and the most effective yorker among fast bowlers playing international cricket now.

A number of people I talked to had predicted it. He was very detail-oriented

Poetry presents the thing in order to convey the feeling. It should be precise about the thing and reticent about the feeling, for as soon as the mind responds and connects with the thing the feeling shows in the words; this is how poetry enters deeply into us.

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Lean back, tighten abs, keep arms locked, look for a place to land my hands.

Do you think there's really a job where all you do is count the number of threads in a sheet? It sounds a whole lot easier than the Laundromat and the diner.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

However, the magic of error reduction works well only when the observations are independent and their errors uncorrelated. If the observers share a bias, the aggregation of judgments will not reduce it. Allowing the observers to influence each other effectively reduces the size of the sample, and with it the precision of the group estimate.

the following two statements mean exactly the same thing: Large samples are more precise than small samples. Small samples yield extreme results more often than large samples do.

From the perspective of noise reduction, a singular decision is a recurrent decision that happens only once.