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Quotes About Correctness

It is therefore reasonable to expect of an analyst, as a part of his qualifications, a considerable degree of mental normality and correctness. In addition, he must possess some kind of superiority, so that in certain analytic situations he can act as a model for his patient and in others as a teacher. And finally we must not forget that the analytic relationship is based on a love of truth — that is, on a recognition of reality — and that it precludes any kind of sham or deceit.
~ Sigmund Freud
Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness, and it has to be made by the rough process of a struggle between combatants fighting under hostile banners.
~ John Stuart Mill
Society is too correct and dull to be an occupation.
~ bagehot walter xv
In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
~ Linus Torvalds
I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
~ Ben Carson
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
~ Jacques Barzun
What Roop says is correct. That thermometer hasn't worked in years." Sanger paused, looking around for Hansom before continuing. Not seeing the goatfish, he proceeded confidently, "Actually, I daresay my own studies have found the instrument to be so imprecise that it is my professional opinion that the temperature is just as likely to be going down as to be going up!
~ Scott Bischke
At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!
~ Madonna Ciccone
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.
~ Mark Twain
the whole discourse around enlightenment becomes about being cognitively correct or incorrect.
~ Stephen Batchelor
The fact that variables have types and cannot simply hold any kind of object is another important feature of the language that ensures safety and correctness of code.
~ Jonathan Knudsen
If the design, or some central part of it, does not map to the domain model, that model is of little value, and the correctness of the software is suspect.
~ Eric Evans
JavaScript: When an event occurs, like the ones you've mentioned, that event is added to a queue. I don't even look at it until I've finished whatever I'm working on. That way I do everything correctly and safely and efficiently.
~ Eric Freeman
You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
~ Benjamin Carson
First, Simplest Explanation. The simplest and most obvious explanation of any phenomenon is usually the correct one.
~ Glen Cook
BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years.
~ Thom Tillis
Simply because one has spent one's life at a work does not mean that the work must be correct, or of use.
~ Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
As Benjamin Disraeli said, It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
~ Barbara Wallraff
The good news is that Christ frees us from the need to obnoxiously focus on our goodness, our commitment, and our correctness. Religious has made us obsessive almost beyond endurance. Jesus invited us to a dance...and we've turned in into a march of soldiers, always checking to see if we're doing it right and are in step and in line with the other soldiers. We know a dance would be more fun, but we believe we must go through hell to get to heaven, so we keep marching.
~ Steve Brown
Most disputes about "correct" usage are questions of custom and authority rather than grammatical logic (see "The Language Mavens" in my book The Language Instinct), and in these disputes in particular, both parties have grammatical logic on their side. Their
~ Steven Pinker
a bit of wisdom from the linguist Ann Farmer: "It isn't about being right. It's about getting it right.
~ Steven Pinker
I am so hip even my errors are correct
~ Nikki Giovanni
It is very easy to learn how to speak and write correctly, as for all purposes of ordinary conversation and communication
~ Joseph Devlin
Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it.
~ Alexa Von Tobel