Quotes About Precision

It was a profession that seemed to fuse compassion and brutality, without having to reveal which was the dominant impulse, as long as both were accompanied by a high degree of precision.

psychopathy of surgeons; the most audacious and godlike healers, who were also the only group of people encouraged to slice open human bodies, saw off limbs, cut out flesh, remove organs and excise brain tissue, operating at the edge of paralysis, stroke and haemorrhage. It was a profession that seemed to fuse compassion and brutality, without having to reveal which was the dominant impulse, as long as both were accompanied by a high degree of precision.

Posterity is not kind to mathematicians who make errors.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

La Sociedad Científicos Sentimentales era una locura. Pero tal vez hace falta un poco de locura entre tanta exactitud y precisión. Serán buenos los cálculos y los teoremas inexpugnables, si es que se aplican a rombos, ángulos y cubos. Pero empiezan a fallar cuando se trata de personas.

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Beethoven's practice of counting out exactly sixty beans for his morning cup of coffee

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Perspicuity, therefore, requires not only that the ideas should be distinctly formed, but that they should be expressed by words distinctly and exclusively appropriate to them.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

I love to score runs rather than defending or leaving the ball. That is an important aspect of my batting: I don't want to waste balls in any form of the game.

I don't like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players. Keith Richards comes to mind, and I really like Nils Lofgren's soloing, because he's so melodic. I love John Lennon's rhythm playing, and George Harrison was an incredible guitarist.

I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.

I have matured in my shot selection but will not discard my style. I don't believe in wasting balls.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

If you want a watch with diamonds on the bezel, you don't need me.