"Noise is the typographical error and the poorly……" — William Zinsser
"Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise."
More Ambiguity Quotes
- During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and… — John le Carre
- The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise… — William Thompson
- Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,… — John Updike
- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no… — Unknown Author
- Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the… — Richard Hamming
- The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of… — Paul Tillich
- No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying… — Rajneesh
- It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science… — Lewis Thomas
- All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact,… — Henri Poincare
- I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity. — Helena Rubinstein
- Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution.… — Giuseppe Peano
- We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are… — John Green