Quotes About Precision

doing things well is generally more important than doing them quickly.

you should wire him correct information

realist works I look for detail; 'Look at the eyelashes!

Quando dite qualcosa assicuratevi di averlo detto.

Only amateurs use short copy.

Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.

Later in conversation he corrected himself: It was in fact 1.1 million pigs. The difference might seem like just a rounding error, he told me, but if you ever had to kill an "extra" hundred thousand pigs and dispose of their bodies in bulldozed pits, you'd remember the difference as significant.

Laboratory virologists are not generally knockabout people. You don't meet them in bars, waving their arms and bragging lustily about the perils of their métier. They tend to be focused, neat, and still, like nuclear engineers.

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine," Viennese player Rudolf Spielmann would later advise. Even

want to cut to the absolute bone.

Finding an answer that happens to fit is not the same as the right answer.

What is it about hairdressers? You tell them 'not too short' and some part of their hairdresser brain hears this as 'whack the shit out of it.' If you never say, 'not too short,' everything is fine. You say it, & it's a guarantee you'll come out ready for the military>

Simplicity is efficient.

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

The key is in the craft.

The easiest way to do anything is properly.

Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds.

Execution is something, but timing is everything.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

Know what you are talking about.

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.