Answer Quote by Josh Kaufman

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

— John Tuley

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always…

— John Tukey

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

— John Tukey

“he realized that he could get an approximate answer that was “good enough” in a short time,”

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know…

— Ann Leckie

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

— Matt Berninger

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

— Mason Cooley

“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.”

— Karen Healey

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

— Lee Smolin

“Given an approximate knowledge of a system’s initial conditions and an understanding of natural law, one can calculate the approximate behavior of the system.”

— James Gleick

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

— Ani DiFranco

That one teacher who makes you feel like a COMPLETE idiot when you get an answer wrong.

— Anonymous