Quotes About Precision

I pace along the edge of the marsh, too afraid to follow her, not for the first time. This is it, this is the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning latitude and longitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

That's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

If you don't measure the performance, you're just guessing, and if you're guessing, you're not very likely to write top-notch code.

On a computer there is no consolation in discovering you're almost right. Almost means you're still just wrong.

Programming "was just the most bizarre situation, because you're used to doing something and thinking you've done it right," he later said. "But it isn't right. You just don't notice it isn't right. On a computer there is no consolation in discovering you're almost right. Almost means you're still just wrong." Even

A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way.

Do everything quickly and well.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give. I'm only sorry it took me so long to read it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

Hammer. Nail. Direct hit.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

The daily routines of each and every element in this universe is based on accurate mathematics. Wherever the math fails, there is destruction.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

When I am racing, my mind and my body are working so quickly and so well together, I must be sure no to think, or else I will definitely make a mistake.