Quotes About Precision

Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Je suis devenu pompier parce que je voulais sauver des gens. Mais j'aurais dû être plus précis. J'aurais dû citer des noms.

Their eye-hand coordination was impressive (maybe the Eugenics Council had done something right).

smooth is fast.

We may stick out the tongue (usually to the side) as we focus assiduously on a task (for example when basketball great Michael Jordan goes up for a dunk)

Details ensure accuracy and help avoid the risk of overlooking meaningful or nuanced behaviors

words easy to be understood often hit the mark, whereas high and learned words only pierce the air.

Am I Making Myself Clear?

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

It is unfortunate that they cannot witness the sight of a fresh cow femur sliced in half by a single stroke of a sharp replica sword.

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. —Milton Glaser

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. –Milton Glaser

That LIKE A BOSS moment when you turn to the exact page in a book your teacher tells you too.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

If you do it right, it will last forever.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.