James May Quotes

You can not define being exactly on time.

I always know what time it is.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

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

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'

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

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

I'm a big mobile fan, so I love seeing all of the latest technologies with phones.

Everybody carries a phone with them, but they may not have a computer.

Of course I have an iPhone and I use that, interestingly enough, mostly for my calendar because it synchronizes with my calendar. I take pictures with it and I show people pictures of my grandchildren.

I'm a watch guy - to me, they symbolize hard work and determination.

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

In this league, there's a lot of times when you're going to have guys open, and it's going to be all good and the fact that you're off a tick might not matter. But when it really matters, you're going to need to be right on it. And I think the more reps you get, the more likely chance you have to feel comfortable in those times of high stress.

I hardly use a computer anymore because I have everything on my phone.

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

Accuracy builds credibility.