Norman R. Augustine Quotes

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

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

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

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

I need to know everything inside quote marks is true.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Accuracy builds credibility.

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

The more up-to-date the information, the more valuable it is.

True information does good.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

The most difficult thing for a manager to determine is when a fact is really a fact.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

The measure of our [the Voice of America] success will be the degree to which we are believed.

Time trieth truth.

Correct" is a property of small systems.

When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

Scripts can be slick and structured, but do they always contain the truth?