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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.
Richard P. Feynman
Day
Will
Approximate
Machines
One Day
Tell
About
Computers
Perhaps
How
Very
Task
Meantime
Descriptions
Cope
Things
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.
John Tukey
Better
Made
Right Question
Approximate
Exact
Wrong
Answer
Always
Question
Than
Precise
Often
Which
Far
Right
Vague
No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.
Orison Swett Marden
Attitude
Will
Honestly
Earnestly
Approximate
Ability
Mental
Mental Attitude
Struggles
Attain
No-One
He
Toward
Reach
Least
Yearning
His
Goal
Mocked
Holds
Which
Right
In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.
Kehinde Wiley
You
Travel
Destination
Say
Approximate
Location
Never
Does
Arrive
End
Person
Trying
In The End
Who
Fashions
Images
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
Joyce Carol Oates
Writing
Say
Approximate
Something
Metaphorical
Scientists
Very
Precise
Whereas
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Milan Kundera
Master
Tool
Approximate
Exactly
Prevails
Only
Idea
Knows
How
Still
Hammer
Handled
May
While
Worker
Meant
Meant To Be
User
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Example
Imitate
Pleases
Approximate
Characters
Admire
Followers
More
Most
Than
Us
Reason
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.
Max Bill
Thought
Unity
Thinking
Way
Approximate
Would
Comprehensive
More
Idea
Thus
Mathematical
Train
Closer
Basic
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.
Louis MacNeice
Recipe
Approximate
Rules
Poem
Laws
Only
Poetry
Individual
Scheme
Devices
Norm
We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise positions in 3-D, not just approximate locations every eight seconds.
Elizabeth Esty
Every
Positions
Seconds
Our
Relative
Approximate
Locations
Seeing
Know
Accurate
Precise
Just
Eight
Planes
Radar
A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
Matt Berninger
Me
Lyrics
Approximate
Knowing
Without
Sound
Lot
Meaning
Why
Right
I created jobs. Russ Feingold, during that same approximate 30 years, what did he do? He built government. He built it larger and more intrusive.
Ron Johnson
Government
Approximate
Jobs
Intrusive
More
He
Built
Years
Did
Same
Created
Larger