Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Quotes

Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.

Akri infallible. Well, except for a couple of things, and we don’t talk about those ‘cause it makes akri cranky. I like that word ‘infallible.’ It just like me. Infallible. (Simi)

Dance must have a precision without fault.

Exactitude is not truth.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

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.

But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

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

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

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

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

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

The smallest errors are always the best.

It is exactness I aim at, and would not have the least mistake, if possible, pass to the world. If I have unhappily fallen into any, it is through inadvertency only

Once you get past 100, it is all about not making a mistake.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

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

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.

Precision matters, breh.