Quotes About Precision

Besides, the brothers did have some equipment that couldn't be readily copied. They had a specially fabricated aluminum griddle for one thing, and the set-up of all the rest of the equipment was in a very precise, step-saving pattern. Then there was the name. I had a strong intuitive sense that the name McDonald's was exactly right.

As Einstein said, "Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.")

Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Charles Bascomb was a man who loved figures—the genuine, Arabic kind, that is.

They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken.

professionals who know what they are doing can "be counted on to follow a well-thought-out methodology

Life is too short to do mediocre work. Measure twice, cut once. Raise the bar. Exceed expectations. Create value. Leave your mark.

You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.

I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.

I have to keep calm and work on my shots in practice.

I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III.

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen.

I'm always careful in generalising things.

Wladimir, the Klitschkos, they're amazing. I like to watch them fight, especially Wladimir, but it's kind of boring. They are really good at what they do, but they are very careful.

I am trying to be a lot more careful - and to not miss easy balls.

I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.

Comedy has to be built carefully.

I try to choose my words carefully, and only say what I mean and mean what I say.

The age of the universe is not just 'a guess', but rather it is a carefully measured number that is now known to a high degree of accuracy.