Quotes About Precision

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Interaction design is not guesswork.

Everytime you make a copy of the copy, you lose clarity.

That fellow couldn't count his balls and get the same number twice.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

When the world has been fully codified and collated, when ambivalences and ambiguities have been so sponged away that we know exactly and objectively where everything is and what it is called, a sense of loss arises.

A fastidious neatness had been at work there, like a poltergeist in reverse.

Sometimes, at the heart of one of these stellar death-events, she observed a newly forged pulsar, emitting radio bursts with ever-slowing but stately precision, like the clocks in some forgotten imperial palace which had been wound one final time and would now tick until they died, the time between each tick lengthening towards some chill eternity.

Whatever I do, whether it's cooking shows, books or events, the details count and that's what sets me apart from other food TV personalities. If you take out the details what's left?

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

They're pretty accurate, the clocks in mobile phones.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.

There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.

In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

Physicians should be genotyped.

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

Only great players can have two shots for one ball, like Tendulkar does, and a big reason is that he picks the ball very early.

When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.

If you're playing a shot and your peripheral vision picks up a player moving as you play the shot, if your vision goes from the object ball to what they're doing, you can miss the shot by several inches.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.