Quotes About Precision

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.

If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it

Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

The eye looks past the target, to where the weapon is intended to reach. When it fails, shock thunders through the body. Every muscle, every bone. I can't even remember the last time it so utterly failed.

The amount of time we can successfully predict the state of a chaotic system depends on three things: how much error we're willing to tolerate in the forecast; how precisely we can measure the initial state of the system; and a time scale that's beyond our control, called the Lyapunov time, which depends on the inherent dynamics of the system itself.

In a chaotic system, the required precision in the initial measurement grows exponentially, not linearly.

Anything that's continuous can be sliced exactly (not just approximately) into infinitely many infinitesimal pieces.

I want to stress that—only sixty digits. That's the most we would ever need to express one distance in terms of another.

GPS on the molecular level.

A VISION is a precise, clearly defined goal with a detailed plan and timetable for achieving that goal.

The flipper bat was quite a breakthrough because it gave the player a true means of exercising and developing skill. You could aim at targets now, rather than in the old days when you popped the ball up and just shook the shit out of the table and hoped that it went in the right hole or hit the right thing. The use of the flipper bat is probably the greatest breakthrough ever in pinball. —Eddie

Physicists are more opportunistic, demanding only enough precision and certainty to give them a good chance of avoiding serious mistakes. In the preface of my own treatise on the quantum theory of fields, I admit that "there are parts of this book that will bring tears to the eyes of the mathematically inclined reader.

The appearance of fine-tuning in a scientific theory is like a cry of distress from nature, complaining that something needs to be better explained.

Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to known where the limits are.