Quotes About Precision

Never say more than is necessary.

The deist God is a physicist to end all physics, the alpha and omega of mathematicians, the apotheosis of designers; a hyper-engineer who set up the laws and constants of the universe, fine-tuned them with exquisite precision and foreknowledge, detonated what we would now call the hot big bang, retired and was never heard from again.

do not just declare things to be irreducibly complex; the chances are that you haven't looked carefully enough at the details, or thought carefully enough about them.

I wrote. Something. Yes. And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.

And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.

Every skill must be practised. Every act rehearsed. A blade is only a blade when it cuts.

Writing is making choices, and the choices we make can be generic, which will cost us our reader's faith, or specific, which will gain our reader's trust. Detail allows us to communicate precisely what we mean.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death

Et combien faut-il de ces petites garces pour faire 2,5kg à votre avis? Je vais vous le dire : il en faut 300, c'est-à-dire, une fois coupées, 600 morceaux baignant dans leur jus, des pépins à ôter 600 fois à la pointe du couteau, avec l'inquiétude d'en oublier.

Jules was frozen with incredulity. In truth, he could not speak. He was touched by the display of honor in two country squires, and by the humbling - in truth hilarious - definitive evidence that some things were beyond his control. And life knew what was best for him better than he did, and had brought it to him, not with graceful precision, but with magnificent, ridiculous poetry.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late.

Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web.

people found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She knew when to use who or whom. She could not abide misinformation. She disdained organized religion. In social situations, she had the strange habit of spouting obscure facts.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.