Quotes About Precision

no leas odas, hijo mío: lee los horarios de trenes. son más exactos.

But if Maximus is "a mystic like Dionysius", he is surely "a mystic who is also a metaphysician, an ascetic who has reached, through his familiarity with Aristotelian philosophy, a consistency and precision of thought that one looks for in vain in the works of the Areopagite.

Bowling is an art and I am an artist."

To say more is to say less.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

I would have written something shorter, but I didn't have time.

I appreciate engineers, I wrote a book about their achievements, but I deprecate what they and other techies do to English words. Hey, these nouns and verbs aren't bits of silicon you can dope with chemicals (boron, phosphorus, and arsenic), drop into a kiln at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and slice and dice. Words breathe. They need TLC—you know

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.

People know that Jacks of All Trades are Masters of None, and people seek out masters. They trust specialists. Try to appeal to thousands, and you will appeal strongly to no one. Find a niche.

The cup is only one inch wide for a putt that is struck too hard. The cup is four inches wide for a ball that dies at the hole.

You have heard it from me many times by now, but I will say it again—to start your downswing, let your weight shift to your left foot while bringing your right elbow back down to your body. This

Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

Pay especially close attention to the seemingly trivial details and the little discrepancies.

Steve paid attention to every nuance of the slides, even details that, as far as I could tell, were invisible to the naked eye, like font kerning—which is adjusting the space between letters—and font smoothing to make sure the curves on each font were perfect. He hired a presentation professional, Wayne Goodrich, to help finalize these details and to make sure that at every single stop on the road show, all the pieces were in place to show the presentation and video perfectly.

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics.

nothing is left to chance; everything must be deeply considered.

Sabía exactamente qué madera quería, pero no decía simplemente "Me gusta el roble" o "Me gusta el arce". Sabía que quería la madera cortada en perpendicular a los anillos del árbol, y que tenía que estar cortada en invierno, idealmente en enero, para que tuviera el mínimo contenido en savia y azucares. En las reuniones, un montón de arquitectos con el pelo canoso nos mirábamos entre nosotros y pensábamos ¡Madre mía!

The imperfect squares would be sorted out of his bowl before he poured in the milk.

Not how much, but how well, is our motto.

Think about it, Lee - we already know that intelligent minds produce finely tuned devices. Look at the space shuttle. Look at a television set. Look at an internal combustion engine. We see minds producing complex, precision machinery all the time. So the existence of a supermind - or God - as the explanation for the fine - tuning of the universe makes all sense in the world.

There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls