Claire Saffitz Quotes

I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.

The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

The star S0-2 orbits around Sgr A* every 16 years and will go through its closest approach in 2018. That's an opportunity to test Einstein's General Relativity theory through very precise measurements of this star's short period orbit.

I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

I'm trying to learn how to cook.

There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail.

They are very wary people in their bargaining, and will not lose one spark of gold of any value. They use weights and measures, and are very circumspect in occupying the same.

I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.

The normal metric of measuring progress has actually been the rate of growth, OK? It's not a wrong metric, but it's not a full metric.

I am learning cooking... all my mother's recipes.

Get digital scales because, for baking, balance scales just aren't accurate enough: it's all in the weighing up.

Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that's half the battle.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.

There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

I have my boots custom-fitted in Cardiff. Everyone s feet are different, so to get measured up is a great bonus. You stand in a cast and they make moulds of your feet. It takes a couple of hours and then they have my exact size and precise measurements for the boot. That's makes them extra comfortable for me.

You know, really - actually, it's funny because it's a sore spot with me because I have all these recipes that, you know, you have to measure things out and put them in. And then you bake it and it becomes this thing. And it's not a recipe.

There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.