Quotes About Precision

Measure twice, cut once

Tokyu Hands assumes that the customer is very serious about something. If that happens to be shining a pair of shoes, and the customer is sufficiently serious about it, he or she may need the very best German sole-edge enamel available—for the museum-grade weekly restoration of the sides of the soles.

I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builders who conceived the build of the boat in their mind and after that touched every single piece that went into the boat.

Demiri nas?l tav?nda dövmek gerekiyorsa, çekiç darbelerini nas?l so?utmadan indirmek gerekiyorsa her kelimeyi de öyle tam zaman?nda söylemek gerekiyordu. O an? geçince söz so?uyor, kat?la??yor, insan?n yüre?ine ta? gibi oturuyor ve bu a??rl??? kald?r?p atmak hiç de kolay olmuyordu.

When you say three things, you say nothing.

People are tempted to tell you everything, with perfect accuracy, right up front, when they should be giving you just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

An accurate but useless idea is still useless.

Some is not a number; soon is not a time. Here's the number: 100,000. Here's the time: June 14, 2006—9 a.m.

Rule #1. Simpler Is Better: Round with Enthusiasm.

Rule 2. Concrete Is Better: Use Whole Numbers to Describe Whole Objects, Not Decimals, Fractions, or Percentages.27

Rule #2. Concrete Is Better: Use Whole Numbers to Describe Whole Objects, Not Decimals, Fractions, or Percentages.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

You say 10 things, you say nothing.

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

Bullets is okay. Bullets is quick.

My handicap? Woods and irons.

Without the numbers to the right of pi, pi just becomes three,

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. — PICASSO

The masters, the ones who succeed tremendously and set the standard for others, are those who master the details.

A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark Twain, is sixteen minutes too long. Technical note: It is better to tell a eulogist to speak for four minutes not five minutes. "Five minutes" to the modern ear sounds like "around five minutes," whereas "four minutes" means "four minutes.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Schmal-der schmalste Weg den wir kennen, ist der auf der Schneide eines Messers...

When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he or she is often made to feel that this is a mark of social inadequacy and that there is something comical about it. The younger the human being, the more humorous it becomes. So that humans whose inclination it is to think and speak in this way become self-conscious from an early age, and a kind of minstrelisation creeps in.