Precise Thinking Quotes

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words in perfect syntax. There is no place for verbosity or carelessness. To become fluent in a computer lnaguage demands almost the antithesis of modern loose thinking. It requires many interactive sessions, the hands-on use of the device. You do not learn a foreign language from a book, rather you have to live in the country for year to let the langauge become an automatic part of you, and the same is true for computer languages.

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

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.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.