Quotes about Precision

That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art…

He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote enhanced when he meant increased. He was a prick.

I think a lot of our bad habits are simply the result of being in too big a hurry to do a thing right to start with.

Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him.

Truth by definition excludes.

Clarity breeds mastery.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

God is never early and never late.