Quotes About Precision

Auri sabía mejor que nadie que valía la pena hacer las cosas correctamente.

That's how they made them years ago, before metal strings, before they knew how to brace a long neck. It's incredible. There's more careful engineering in that swan neck than in any three cathedrals.

But how quickly you can finger notes is the smallest part of music. The real key is timing.

Six feet six inches. Dead even.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting their hands on the equipment and getting it to do things for them. It's not about art or ideas. It's about working at something and making it come out right.

knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,

Weigh all your ingredients in grams to achieve greater consistency with your baking.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

there is no such thing as two absolutely simultaneously-occurring events in MIDI—any two events must be at least 0.6 milliseconds apart

Recent discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the expanding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of astonishing precision.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty

To give an estimate is to say something you don't know absolutely to be true, and therefore it is to tell a lie, something geeks find deeply painful.

Paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly. Because he pays close attention, a Navy pilot can land a 40,000 lb. aircraft at 140 miles per hour on a pitching carrier deck, at night, more safely than the average teenager can cut a bagel.

In short, believers in the standpoint that the entire universe runs like a perfect clock dismiss the notion that anything is fundamentally random.

Because it is harder to measure smaller things by relating their positions and momenta to those of other known objects, uncertainty is much greater at the atomic level than at the astronomical level. Therefore, quantum uncertainty is not a fundamental feature of nature but the result of human inability to measure everything in the universe with absolute precision. (Eddington)

Less is more, more or less.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

partial sum is correct within an error less than the first term neglected.

subtlety sometimes eludes me. Why not just hit the nail on the head?

Steel, speed, and stealth for a hit. Never spells. And sure as Hells never fire.

How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?

By giving the name of progress to its own tendency to a fatal precision, the world is seeking to add to the benefits of life the advantages of death.