“No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”— Isaac Babel
“When you play a game of chess, it is like you are building a bridge. If you make one bad move, the whole bridge collapses.”— Mikhail Botvinnik
“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.”— John Tukey
“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.”— John von Neumann
“It is with something clean and precise that you will force the attention of inattentive eyes and ears.”— Robert Bresson
“I don't think that there's that much difference between a conductor and a surgeon. It's very important to be clear about what you want to do.”— Daniel Barenboim
“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.”— Niklaus Wirth
“The photographer's eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimeter.”— Bill Brandt