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Accuracy

All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
-- Jane Wagner

Although our information is incorrect, we do not vouch for it.
-- Erik Alfred Leslie Satie

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
-- Unknown

It's more important to be nearly right and understandable than to be academically accurate and unintelligible.
-- Unknown

"Then you should say what you mean," the Mach Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
-- Lewis Carroll

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
-- Mark Twain

If this sentence were in Chinese, it would say something else.
-- Douglas R. Hofstadter (cited by)

Different representations of the same knowledge will lead to different analyses, different insights... Pictures, graphs, tables, and text are all different manners for presenting information. The type of representation that is most effective will depend upon the material to be presented and the use which it is to be but. Thus, depending upon the material to be presented and the use which it is to be put. Thus, depending upon the material and the task, some representations will be better that others... The trick, of course, is to develop representation: that capture the important, critical features of the represented world; that are themselves in an appropriate format to enhance the person's access to the information they represent; that support and simplify the computations needed to deduce implications or to determine regularities and structure within the representations
-- Don Norman, "Things that Make us Smart"


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