Quotes About Precision

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

Science rejects the indeterminate.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

Quality is better than quantity.

They compose poems to their knives.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.

1337% of Pi ? 42

Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?

to be of greater use, the rules need to be remolded so that they are more precise and accurate, less egocentric, and more elastic . When rules are discovered to be false, self-defeating, or unworkable, they have to be dropped from the repertoire.

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine.

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right? Didn't write any decent girl characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine. The

His standards for himself, and for everybody around him, are the highest. He was Foreign Office trained and wants the world to function at that level. He is meticulous about everything; he hates to be late; he hates inaccuracy; he double checks everything; he follows up everything; he has fallbacks if things should, in spite of everybody's efforts, go wrong.7

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous.

It takes great skill to do the right thing at the right time.

When you hit back make sure you have got the right man.

The essence of marketing is narrowing the focus. You become stronger when you reduce the scope of your operations. You can't stand for something if you chase after everything.