Quotes About Correctness

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Half the evils of the world come from inaccuracy.

Unfortunately, many today have come to equate morality with political correctness

A word is used correctly when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of correctness. The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.

Lo correcto, ¿qué diablos significa eso? ¿Me lo puedes explicar? A decir verdad, no sé muy bien qué es lo correcto. Lo que no es correcto sí lo sé, pero lo correcto, ¿qué es?

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

That's right," grumped Mr. Schultz, half-pretending.

I didn't doubt the correctness of the information for an instant – I still tend to trust the pronouncements of scientists in the way I trust those of surgeons, plumbers, and other possessors of arcane and privileged information

We say we want the truth; what we mean is that we want to be correct. —Mihnea Moldoveanu

An Aryan [noble] mind has too much respect for other people, and its sense of its own dignity is too pronounced to allow it to impose its own ideas upon others, even when it knows that its ideas are correct.

The hallmark of a successful theory is that it predicts correctly facts that were not known when the theory was presented, or, better still, which were then known incorrectly. A good theory should have at least two characteristics: it should be in sharp contrast to at least one alternative idea and it should make predictions which are testable.

The power of autobiographical memories lies in their specificity. Colourful and alive, they can be actively called up and dwelled upon. They are reconstructions - which us why they are sometimes false - yet so powerful that they are accompanied by an extraordinary sense of their correctness.

An emotion is correct, "when one's feelings are adequate to their object — adequate in the sense of being appropriate, suitable, or fitting

The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions.

The possibility of incorrect results in the presence of unlucky timing is so important in concurrent programming that it has a name: a race condition. A race condition occurs when the correctness of a computation depends on the relative timing or interleaving of multiple threads by the runtime; in other words, when getting the right answer relies on lucky timing.

Once an object escapes, you have to assume that another class or thread may, maliciously or carelessly, misuse it. This is a compelling reason to use encapsulation: it makes it practical to analyze programs for correctness and harder to violate design constraints accidentally.

Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.

That was before the new puritans took over the city. Before political correctness became the rage and melted all of us into a single amorphous dung heap.

Political correctness, no matter how well intentioned, is still an attack on freedom of speech.