Precision

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.

— Precision

Without minute neatness of execution the sublime cannot exist. Grandeur of ideas is precision of ideas. Singular and particular detail is the foundation of the sublime.

— Precision

The cost of perfection is infinite in terms of time and in terms of resources. So you're always going to have to make some judgment call about how reliable is a source, or, um, how many experts do you want to contact before you're ok with this.

— Precision

You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them.

— Precision