Quotes About Precision

Eragon as he pulled back the bowstring and released it with a twang. With a puff of feathers, the crow fell over backward, the arrow protruding from its chest.

Part of the fascination," he said, "is just little boys who never grew up, playing with Erector sets. Engineers just don't lose that, and if you do lose it, you just can't be an engineer anymore.

A lee-tle bit

There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation, Tessia knew. Not if you did it properly.

Firms and employers and monitors will be able to measure economic value with a sometimes oppressive precision.

three fingers hold the pen, but the whole body works.

Finally, remember this fundamental principle: the more you narrow the field, the better and more safely you will work. Always prefer a monograph to a survey. It is better for your thesis to resemble an essay than a complete history or an encyclopedia.

But even this writer writes in the hope, not all that secret, that his book itself will create, and in great quantity, many new exemplars of this reader, desired and pursued with such craftsmanlike precision, and postulated, encouraged, by his text.

When the man was totting up the fare, all the de luxe supplements, he worked the sum out twenty times on the adding machine. The same sum, twenty times. Why? Did he think the machine was going to change its mind?

Rigid ranking based on minuscule differences misleads rather than informs. Rounding and approximation is superior to unwarranted and unnecessary precision. Doubt, caution, and incessant questioning are in order—but so is the insistence on quantifying the complex realities of the modern world. If we are to understand many unruly realities, if we are to base our decisions on the best available information, then there is no substitute for this pursuit.

sake of exactness

if merely for the sake of exactness in all points

Tout y est sobre, exact, nu, précis, correct. Un phare est un chiffre

Basketball Rule #8 Sometimes you have to lean back a little and fade away to get the best shot.

Sometimes you have to lean back a little and fade away to get the best shot.

Push the chair in too quickly or too slowly, or else sit too soon or too heavily, and misadventure ensues, perhaps even an unintended baptism of the hindquarters.

A laxity pervades the popular use of words.

Nothing less than 7 inches.

neatly clipped beech hedge.

Behind all political success is attention to detail." LARRY O'BRIEN, adviser to John F. Kennedy

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

I've a devil of a habit for being right.

You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?' 'Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to get really exact numbers.

Accuracy is next to godliness.