H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

Precision matters, breh.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct

Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

I have a couple of friends who have gone pro in sports, and if you are off by an inch, it's an entire mindgame for the next week. That's how it works: like, your whole world is based around an inch. Being an actor, your whole world turns on an inch, too.

If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get the details right, the inaccuracies will accumulate somewhere.

The difference between a good shot and bad shot can be an inch to the left.

There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.

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

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Let's nail it down, let's get it right.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.