Top 22 Accuracy And Precision Quotes
#1. No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.
Charles Babbage
#3. You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.
Claire Denis
#4. But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.
Etienne Bonnot De Condillac
#5. I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the more distant the forecast time. I'm a strong believer in chaos theory.
Linda Bradford Raschke
#6. Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.
Walter A. Shewhart
#7. Becky Vesey always gave good advice and she gave it with great conviction because she always believed it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#8. If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.
Marianne Williamson
#9. I did a movie called 'Clueless' when I was first starting out. And with that paycheck, I went and bought a car, which I had no use for, because I lived in New York City, where you can take a train for a dollar anywhere. But instead, I bought a $20,000 car with a $12,000 check.
Donald Faison
#10. Today, if you don't understand the controller, you're not able to enjoy video games. ... We expect the Revolution [Wii] controller to become the standard in video game controls.
Satoru Iwata
#11. It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.
Baltasar Gracian
#12. But it ain't the Broncos that'll kill you
It's just that damned old cowboy pride.
Michael Martin Murphy-"Cowboy Pride
Michael Martin Murphy
#13. I search the language for a word
to tell you how red is red.
Lisel Mueller
#14. Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
Edwidge Danticat
#15. We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
John Ortberg
#16. Clarity! Accuracy! Think of your words as a key to fit into the lock of your meaning. Cast them with precision. That key should then be swift and perfect in achieving its aim. Well shaped talk is a release from the indefinite. It is explanation. Preparation. Nothing more.
Jane Borodale
#17. Fill my mouth with the accuracy and potency of Your word and Spirit that I may make war through prayer with swift precision (Psalm 144:1).
Shawntel Jefferson
#18. There is a major difference between a scuba diver and a drowning man. One is in control of his experiences, the other is in over his head.
Laren Grey Umphlett
#19. We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
Saint Francis De Sales
#20. Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.
Martin Schulz
#21. Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
Cesare Pavese
#22. Even in ordinary conversation, the ideas connected with the word Logic include at least precision of language, and accuracy of classification: and we perhaps oftener hear persons speak of a logical arrangement, or of expressions logically defined, than of conclusions logically deduced from premises.
John Stuart Mill
