Steven Sinofsky Quotes

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it's better to tell the truth.

Stop lying about my record.

Truth is a standard both of itself and of falsity.

Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.

I will not be misquoted!

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

Everything I say is true.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I don't mind what people say about me as long as it's an opinion or the truth. If someone says, 'He's the worst comedian in the world,' that's fine. If someone says, 'His face makes me want to punch the TV,' that's fine. But if they say, 'Oh, and I know for a fact he hunts squirrels,' I go: no, no, no... that's a lie.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

I'm not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

I don't give false claims any due.

We cannot afford to have lies in music.