Calibration Quotes

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

I do not see scales as abstract.

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

I’m very outcomes-oriented—what’s the best way to get there? Sometimes it’s being diplomatic and sometimes it’s being harsh…. So you just have to calibrate and figure out what is the end state you’re trying to get to…. It depends on what you are trying to achieve.

Scales are not allowed in my house.

Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.

The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

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

I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”

I'm a really good fine tuner.