Quotes About Correctness

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.

Scientific achievements held to be correct should be just as amenable to sociological analysis as those thought to be wrong. Thirdly, emphasis on the "social" has led commentators to argue for some redress of an imbalance: not enough attention is thought to have been paid to the "technical." For example, Whitley has argued that sociological interest in science is in danger of turning into a sociology of scientists rather than a fully fledged sociology of science:

Prohibiting any words not approved of as 'politically correct' - that's not progressive. Putting 'trigger warnings' on books, movies, music, anything that might offend people - that's not progressive, either.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

Intolerance is a beautiful thing...There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

I'm sure that absolute correctness must seem a dull existence to you, but I know no other way to be

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Political correctness in its most literal sense set in early among the Ottomans: their chroniclers mention neither Orhan's alliance with the Christian Byzantine emperor John VI, nor his marriage to Princess Theodora.

You can tell when something is right because most things are just plain wrong.

The ultimate intuitions on which ethics rests are not debatable, for they are not opinions we hazard but preferences we feel; and it can neither be correct nor incorrect that we feel them.

An aside: I learned that the correct term is "Maya" and not "Mayan," which apparently refers only to the language. The incorrect term is in such common usage, however, that people often don't know what I'm talking about if I use

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

Hit the nail on the head.

It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one.

It was what he had taught her, what she had picked up from him and incorporated, as words, as passing attitude, into the chaos of words and attitudes she possessed: words that she might shed at any time as easily as she had picked them up, and forget she had ever spoken them, she who had once been married to a young politician and had without effort incarnated an ordinary correctness, and who might easily return to such a role.

Tout y est sobre, exact, nu, précis, correct. Un phare est un chiffre

I've a devil of a habit for being right.

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.

The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood's political altar, the Democratic Party.