Quotes About Precision

It's like tossing a dart," he'd said. "There's nothing amazing about it. You throw and it sticks somewhere. But if you try and backtrack every factor that led there, the force of the throw and the angle and the air resistance, all of it had to be perfect, just exactly right, for it to end up where it did.

It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.

All truth is comprised in music and mathematics.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

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People, alas, don't document things with any kind of precision. They fill Twitter with blurry photos.

At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment.

Dante gives excellent advice to teachers when he says, "Let thy words be counted." The more carefully we cut away useless words, the more perfect will become the lesson. And

The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

Even a stopped clock is right two times a day.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

Monetary policy does not work like a scalpel but more like a sledgehammer.

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.