Precise Quotes · Page 6

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

— Norbert Wiener

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep…

— Robert Ballard

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

— Niklaus Wirth

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

— Irvine Welsh

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

— Steven Herrick

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is…

— John Sununu

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you…

— Douglas Adams

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

— E. L. Doctorow

Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility,…

— Andrea Dworkin

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and…

— Chogyam Trungpa

I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there…

— Frederick Wiseman

I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I…

— Harriet Lerner

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this…

— Dario Argento

I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will…

— Tamara de Lempicka

The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer…

— Leonard Bishop

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.…

— Michael Specter

There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to…

— Florence King

In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body.…

— Eckhart Tolle

I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business…

— Warren Buffett

Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the…

— Martin Scorsese

I say yes to the hot bath and the sandwich - to getting ourselves into the best possible mental shape to identify…

— George Saunders

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers,…

— Donna J. Haraway

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to…

— Bertrand Russell

I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

— Thomas Huxley

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

— Tariq Ramadan

The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.

— Margaret Visser

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it.…

— Jim Lefebvre

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree…

— K. Eric Drexler

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so…

— Karl Jaspers

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

— Harold Innis

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant…

— Jorge Luis Borges

As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three…

— Gaspard Ulliel

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

— Ana Gasteyer

I can give a precise day when Christ came to me and began to transform my life with his power and love.

— Keith Ward

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.

— Zadie Smith