Quotes About Precision

We were never promised precision in this life... With the gift of agency to mankind, life cannot possibly present a perfectly tidy picture. The ambiguities of circumstances are partly, if not largely, the cumulative result of our varied use of our moral agency, but also of the structure of life itself.

If you're careless and disorganized, you lose your ability to see things clearly.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

try to soften the differentiator. You might ask, "How do you measure machine speed? Do you mean speed for continuous run, or speed for a one-off job? Some machines are very fast under continuous run conditions, but they perform much more slowly if you have one-off production needs.

Half a thou too small," he said. "The difference between Right and Wrong. Half a thou bigger, and it'ld be Right. As it is, it's Wrong, and you can't cheat about it." He smiled again. "Too bad when God gives you the mind of an Inspector, isn't it?

The French waited a couple of minutes and fired again. That shot fell alongside.

The mechanical clock changed the way we saw ourselves. And like the map, it changed the way we thought. Once the clock had redefined time as a series of units of equal duration, our minds began to stress the methodical mental work of division and measurement.

The airplane was a complicated system encompassing many components, but to a skilled pilot it still had the intimate quality of a hand tool. The love that lays the swale in rows is also the love that parts the clouds for the stick-and-rudder man.

What counted was focus, paring down: the form of the Parthenon as opposed to all the ornament and complexities of wedding-cake architecture.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly

The Audi felt like a banker's car: beautifully machined, competent but not compassionate, giving the driver a sense of admiration, but not involvement.

The people who built these churches understood wood, and they were not in a hurry.

It was stitch-by-stitch work, following a plaid pattern. Child's play. It made her restless and impatient.

Precision in philosophy is a false elegance. On the other hand, literary precision is the foundation of aesthetic achievement.

just because a test or measurement is reliable doesn't mean it's valid.

Remember, it's not how fast you go in a Formula 1 car that injures or kills you – it is how quickly you stop.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

Arta este: des?vâr?irea activit??ii noastre - a voi într-un anume fel - potrivit unei idei - a voi ?i a f?ptui e aici acela?i lucru. Numai prin exersarea repetat? a activit??ii noastre, ce devine tot mai precis? ?i mai viguroas?, apare arta.

Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.