Quotes About Precision

Ferraris are art, but they love being driven.

Driving is the only thing I love about F1.

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

I am so hip even my errors are correct

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing - it's just beautiful to watch.

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

I love thoroughness. I respect people that do a job well.

I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

Het juiste woord, de precisie van de formulering, (...) verschaft de schrijver die 'heimelijke zorgeloosheid', het geluksgevoel. Citaat uit 'De vreugde van het formuleren

When things break down, what has been ignored rushes in. When things are no longer specified, with precision, the walls crumble, and chaos makes its presence known. When we've been careless, and let things slide, what we have refused to attend to gathers itself up, adopts a serpentine form, and strikes--often at the worst possible moment. It is then that we see what focused intent, precision of aim and careful attention protects us from.

before a problem can be solved it must be formulated precisely.

Mathematics is the extension of common sense by other means.

Mathematicians can be persnickety about logical niceties. We're the kind of people who think it's funny, when asked, "Do you want soup or salad with that?" to reply, "Yes.

Cauchy was not interested in the needs of engineers. Cauchy was interested in the truth.

Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math is a science of not being wrong about things, its techniques and habits hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, sounder, and more meaningful way.

Math gives us a way of being unsure in a principled way: not just throwing up our hands and saying "huh," but rather making a firm assertion: "I'm not sure, this is why I'm not sure, and this is roughly how not-sure I am." Or even more: "I'm unsure, and you should be too.

Don't talk about percentages of numbers when the numbers might be negative.

When you're trying to draw reliable inferences from improbable events, wiggle room is the enemy.

Math is a science of not being wrong about things,

Math is a science of not being wrong about things, its techniques and habits hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument.

statistically noticeable" or "statistically detectable" instead of "statistically significant"! That would be truer to the meaning of the method,