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“In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!”

“That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”

Ifs Past Accepting Opinion Events Danger Standards Ideology Formulas Measurement Accuracy High Standards Past Events Future Events

Author:John Dos Passos

“The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.”

Giving Science Ten Models Standards Mathematics Accuracy Decimals

Author:Nathan Seiberg

“Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.”

Humans Order Left Causes Sacrifice Design Speech Charm Remedy Accuracy Sectarianism

Book:777 revised: vel, Prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mysticae viae explicandae, fundamentum hieroglyphicum sanctissimorum scientiae summae

Source: 777 revised: vel, Prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mysticae viae explicandae, fundamentum hieroglyphicum sanctissimorum scientiae summae

“An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.”

Humans Ideas Form Creativity Internet Originals Versions Genes Selection Altered Accuracy Copying Original Ideas Memes Hijacking

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our troubles and have some excitement' approach. I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.”

Firsts Sports Forget Trouble Integrity Approach Regard Entertainment Convinced Excitement Dry Documentaries Accuracy Narration

Author:Jack Brickhouse

“Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.”

Thinking Facts Care Moral Opinion Honesty Sorrow Manage Burning Fancy Reports Diaries Exquisite Accuracy Loaded Evaluation

Author:E. B. White

“Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.”

Information Amount Investing Accuracy Forecasts

Author:Dean Williams

“Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)”

“The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.”

Quality Information Internet Data Editors Free Speech Highways Utility Accuracy Saying No Delivering Barometer Pedigree Timeliness

Author:Clifford Stoll

“To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.”

Mind Moving Energy Yoga Train Speed Chosen Minimum Maximum Accuracy Disturbance Friction

Author:Aleister Crowley

“Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.”

Honesty Brother Twins Dishonesty Accuracy Twin Brother

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.”

Humility Capitalism Accuracy Barbaric

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!”

Firsts Used Lying Accidents Accuracy Never Lie

Book:Black Boomerang: An Autobiography

Source: Black Boomerang: An Autobiography

“Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.”

People Way Details Lawyer Arguing Journalist Logical Accuracy

Author:Ann Coulter

“Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.”

Ideas Language Liberty India Developing Superstitions English Language Englishmen Accuracy Imbibing

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.”

Ifs Matter Keys Speed Software Screws Accuracy Hardware

Author:Reid Hoffman

“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”

Ends Quality History Records Fundamentals Primaries Historian Fidelity Accuracy Impartiality

Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

“Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.”

Needs Looks Past Desire Ability Blessing Degrees Make Sense Curse Inability Accuracy

Book:And the Land Lay Still

Source: And the Land Lay Still

“Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.”

Thinking Order Sentences Accuracy Time To Think

Author:Hugh Blair

“One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.”

Should Interesting Aim Accuracy

Author:Voltaire

“The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.”

Firsts Humans Action Form Interesting Events Elements Dignity Agents Concrete Accuracy Presenting Truthfulness Reciting

Book:An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852

Source: An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852

“You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.”

Ifs Knows Want Know How Painting Accidents Representation Accuracy

Author:Francis Bacon

“No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.”

Persons Literature Enemy Judging Judgment Thinker Accurate Accuracy Umpires Judgment Of Others

Book:The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Persons I Can Able Political Sides Cases Argument Reasonable Boast Accuracy Political Arguments

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

Inspirational Photography Cameras Photographer Photograph Accurate Accuracy Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography Photo Shoots Camera And Photography Photojournalism Digital Photography Film Photography Photography And Film

Author:Richard Avedon

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”

Love Mind Logic Insanity Accurate Accuracy Holmes Madness And Sanity Insanity And Sanity Madness And Insanity Definition Of Insanity

Book:Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

“Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.”

Should Trying Enough Answers Mistake Genius Function Errors Defined Data Statistics Thinker Glimpse Flawed Accuracy Right Answers

Author:Kathryn Schulz

“When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.”

People Looks Stories Jealous Intensity Accuracy Get Jealous

Author:Parul Sehgal

“Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.”

Mean Decision Numbers Existence Steps Degrees Definitions Proof Reaching Quantity Finite Accuracy Finite Number

Author:Leopold Kronecker

“You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.”

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.”

Cases Vain Reasoning Sentiments Delicate Sentimental Accuracy

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that we've trashed our education institutions beyond repair, people fear that the only people are getting their histories is through the movies, so the elephant in the room is that no one wants to talk about why we're so passionately obsessed with accuracy.”

People Thinking Want Reason Rooms Arms Institutions Historical Obsessed Elephants Accuracy Elephant In The Room

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.”

Mind May Body Emotion Grace Objects Train Accuracy Vigor

Author:Annie Besant

“Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness.”

Quality Determined Accuracy Completeness

Author:Larry Sanger

“Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.”

Statements Clarity Exclusive Accuracy

Author:Niels Bohr

“The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.”

Children Has Beens Hands Eye Plans Taught Training Pot Accurate Sections Admirable Accuracy Elevation Pints

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.”

Ifs Ideas Problem Order Language Greater Very Good Dimensions Our Thoughts Superficial Obliged Absent Etiquette Accuracy Distinctive Articulation Timbre

Author:Alain de Botton

“History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.”

World Uncertain Earning Accuracy Prospects Visibility

Book:Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation

Source: Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation

“I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is.”

Thinking Writing Littles Has Beens Use Language New York Standards Foundation Journalism Accuracy New York Times

Author:Will Leitch

“Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.”

“The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible to fabricate events. Anyone who cared to could have checked out the accuracy of what they reported. The fact that the disciples were able to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem in the face of their enemies a few weeks after the crucifixion shows that what they proclaimed was true, for they could never have proclaimed the resurrection under such circumstances had it not occurred.”

Has Beens Facts Shows Able Faces Enemy Records Impossible Written Week Events Circumstances Resurrection Disciple Accuracy Jerusalem Crucifixion Proximity Fabricate

Author:William Lane Craig

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of the gospels is so obvious, why have so many scholars failed to appreciate the incontestable nature of the evidence?”

Ifs Needs Support Evidence Appreciate Historical Obvious Scholar Accuracy Reliability Historical Accuracy

Author:Robert W. Funk

“I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.”

Thinking Way Needs Writing Mean Persons Art Eye Together Fronts Honesty Photography Art Is Observation Related Telling The Truth Accuracy Eloquent

Author:Eudora Welty

“At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.”

“The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.”

Years Facts Truth Is Devoted Literal Accuracy New Yorkers

Author:William Shawn

“The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.”

Sometimes Objects Duty Advantage Speed Journalist Accuracy

Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

“Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.”

May Scene Accepted Merit Representation Posterity Accuracy

Book:Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

Source: Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

“No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.”

Ifs Should Hard Natural Chance Simple Study Our Lives Goes On Exercise Sentences Leap Breaking Down Transcendence Accuracy Fugue

Author:Adrienne Rich