Quotes About Precision

I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible beyond a certain point: the most faithfully descriptive account of anything will always turn away from what it describes into its own self-contained grammatical fictions of subject and predicate and object.

you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many. - Which Macabre

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

A beard well lathered is half shaven.

KusursuzluÄŸu küçük ÅŸeyler oluÅŸturur; ama kusursuzluk küçük bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Nature hates all botched and half-finished work, and will pronounce her curse upon it.

Build slow and sure; 'tis for life, young man. In the elder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere. — Longfellow.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life. —Smiles.

A broken clock is right two times a day.

Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

Think like a machine instead of a boy.

Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

Practicing archery is like practicing to be a Gentleman. When you miss the bulls-eye, you look for the error in yourself.

I looked at my pocket watch. It was half past IX.

It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration!

The narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery.