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Quotes About Precise

and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.
~ Laurie R. King
Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
~ Alfred Adler
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
~ Carl Jung
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
~ Frederick Soddy
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
~ William Thurston
Communication is a science as well as an art. What does speaking precisely mean? You are consciously communicating with another person at that person's frequency, not yours.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
It was an arrangement, coldly conceived for sexual gratification, without even words that first time, but limited by coldly precise and rational language from there on out. The terms were that they would use each other's bodies for that ornate form of masturbation called Making Love, but there was to be no question of emotional involvement, or prying into one another's soul. This, they decided coldly, would keep them from going crazy.
~ Don Carpenter
companies often create complex prioritization algorithms that produce precise priorities based on very imprecise input data.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Words and emotions are simple currencies. If we inflate them, they lose their value, just like money. They begin to mean nothing. Use 'beautiful' to describe a sandwich and the word means nothing. Since the war, there is no more room for inflated language. Words and feelings are small now - clear and precise. Humble like dreams.
~ Jess Walter
In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it.
~ Jesse Ball
become works of art so detailed, so precisely articulated
~ Erik Larson
The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'm a writer, Inspector. I choose my words carefully.
~ Ann Cleeves
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.
~ Lord Mountbatten
I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
~ Neil Armstrong
My husband and I went to Japan for our honeymoon, and you look at, like, the presentation of the food, and it's ridiculous. It looks like a Mondrian painting or something. Everything looks like a bunch of little Hello Kitty erasers when you eat a little bento box in Japan. It's so precise and beautiful and processed and neat.
~ Ali Wong
'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.
~ Neil Patrick Harris
I'm very much a technical person.
~ Ashley Wagner
A winning wave, deserving note,In the tempestuous petticoat,A careless shoestring, in whose tieI see a wild civility,Do more bewitch me than when artIs too precise in every part.
~ Robert Herrick
Stout was a leader—quiet, unselfish, modest, yet very strong, very thoughtful and remarkably innovative. Whether speaking or writing, he was economical with words, precise, vivid. One believed what he said; one wanted to do what he proposed." Neither
~ Robert M. Edsel
WHAT PRECISELY IS an algorithm, or a Turing machine, or a universal Turing machine? Why should these concepts be so central to the modern view of what could constitute a 'thinking device'?
~ Roger Penrose
He was methodical to an extreme, careful as to details and exacting to a fraction.
~ Ron Chernow