Charles Babbage Quotes

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

I do not see scales as abstract.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

You can not define being exactly on time.

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

A ruler isn't always straight.

There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

The heart of science is measurement.

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

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.

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

I'll bring my stopwatch.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.