Quotes About Precision

As a result, humans can perform very intricate tasks with their hands. In particular, they can produce and use sophisticated tools.

Then the algorithm will know best, the algorithm will always be right, and beauty will be in the calculations of the algorithm.

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Studying

In fact, Harold had never once paid attention to his watch other than to find out the time. And, honestly, it drove his watch crazy.

Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

The novel tends to tell us everything,' wrote V.S. Pritchett in his introduction to the Oxford Book of Short Stories, 'whereas the short story tells us only one thing, and that, intensely'.

The good stuff is in the details.

I think I'm more curious than I used to be - curious about why people live like they do and how they make sense of their time... Do they see how the sun has made it like a champion around the world overnight, and that all day today we get another chance to be brave, to exercise our humanity with boldness and deft precision?

Great poets are great copy editors.

Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers.

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

Sabrina Kincaid heard the jingle of the café's glass door opening and glanced at the clock above the workstation: 7:12 on the dot.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

The "Pi Moment" of this century is on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53, because Pi = 3.141592653. First 10 digits of Pi come together, in the same sequence, at that precise moment, on March 14 this year, at 9:26:53. You don't have to be a Nerd to celebrate "Pi Moment".....but sometimes it helps!

Many technical people consider estimating difficult; and indeed, at this stage, it is definitely as much art as it is science.

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.