Quotes About Precision

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

I was reminded of Lord Kelvin's observation, overbroad but nevertheless thought-provoking: "When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

To achieve greater clarity in my actions, I often invoke a "bright-line rule," a useful concept from law. A bright-line rule is a clearly defined rule or standard that eliminates any need for interpretation or decision making.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

God is in the details.

The devil is in the detail is an idiom that refers to a catch or mysterious element hidden in the details. It derives from God is in the detail attributed to German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). Earlier on Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) said Le bon Dieu est dans le detail. Meaning that things seem simple at first but are more complex or require more time and effort than expected. The earlier idea is that details are important; whatever one does should be done thoroughly.

I envision a style: a style that would be beautiful, that someone will invent some day, ten years or ten centuries from now, one that would be rhythmic as verse, precise as the language of the sciences, undulant, deep-voiced as a cello, tipped with flame: a style that would pierce your idea like a dagger, and on which your thought would sail easily ahead over a smooth surface, like a skiff before a good tail wind.

If you can't describe your business model in ten words or fewer, you don't have a business model.

Steve Jobs taught me that little details separate the mediocre from the excellent.

It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.

The extermination machinery had been planned and perfected in all its details long before the horror of war struck Germany herself, and its intricate bureaucracy functioned with the same unwavering precision in the years of easy victory as in those last years of predictable defeat.

Oh, you've made plenty of short stories long. But never, ever, have you made a long story short.

In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there's no formula.

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

I definitely like to throw a deep post or something over the top that gives a receiver time to run under it and score a touchdown.

The tip I would give is that once you play the shot, make sure your chin is touching the cue after you hit the cue ball.

It's tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.