Accuracy Quotes

204 quotes by 185 authors

Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in… — Alan Cooper
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy,… — John Dewey
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. — Stanislav Grof
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry. — Wyatt Earp
How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy? — Henry Martyn
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. — Talcott Parsons
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to… — Thomas R. Marshall
The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Donâ€™t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from… — David Gerrold
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. — Tryon Edwards
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology. — Robert Anton Wilson
The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy — Abraham Lincoln
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… — Walter A. Shewhart
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness… — Carl Bernstein
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. — Herbert Bayard Swope
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another. — J. D. Greear
Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding from the wisdom… — Paul David Tripp
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer… — A.M. Homes
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky… — Jack Newfield
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was… — Richard Posner

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