Approximate Quotes
On rough answers versus the right questions.
These approximate quotes prefer a workable answer to a meaningful question over flawless precision aimed at the wrong target entirely. For more on setting the right target, see our Aim quotes page.
Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
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Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
Aim Quotes
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
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