Quotes About Precision

Technothinkers tend to have an "engineering mind"—to put it less politely, they have autistic tendencies. While they don't usually wear ties, these types tend, of course, to exhibit all the textbook characteristics of nerdiness—mostly lack of charm, interest in objects instead of persons, causing them to neglect their looks. They love precision at the expense of applicability. And they typically share an absence of literary culture.

that even a broken clock is right twice a day.

They love precision at the expense of applicability.

Their strength is extremely domain-specific

Less is more and usually more effective.

I am simplifying numbers here for clarity.

The first error lies in taking a projection too seriously, without heeding its accuracy.

I want to be broadly right rather than precisely wrong.

Our inferential machinery, that which we use in daily life, is not made for a complicated environment in which a statement changes markedly when its wording is slightly modified.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different,' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all.

I'm sure that absolute correctness must seem a dull existence to you, but I know no other way to be

Scythe Anastasia took a deep breath of precisely 3,644 milliliters, and slowly released it.

Even the tiniest loose thread in the fabric of your world cannot be tolerated. Either everyting works, or nothing does

This last sentence is imprecise.

How a word more or less, an idea omitted or added, a syllable misplaced, can transform a whole sentence and make what was before harmless, really shocking!

I dared not make a mistake…

Statistics is like a high-caliber weapon: helpful when used correctly and potentially disastrous in the wrong hands.

Things are always like that. Our eye sees something; we take a stone and aim at it. But the stone rarely succeeds like the eye in hitting the mark.

Only the hand fails to throw as straight as the eye sees.

6. Round down.

On time is 10 minutes late.

I will not be misquoted!

There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.