In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.
I've made a career of being precise.
When it comes to watches, it's ironic that you can spend thousands on an exquisitely made mechanical watch, and yet it will be less accurate than a five-quid digital bought from a petrol station.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Precision matters, breh.
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.
There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.
In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.
Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.
The technical challenges were technical challenges that were not unbeatable; it was just that we had to learn how to do things and how to build a sensitive enough device. That took us 20 years after we built the first version of the LIGO detector.
I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.
People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this aspect because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular failures.
I really have to pinch myself to believe that I'm part of the TAG Heuer family
Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.
An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.
A round or a square product was easily made, except for an oval one, at that time when watch industry mainly relied on hand-made or semi-automatic equipments. It is like the printing and coat film of the mobile phone, which is difficult to realize counterpoint.
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.
The holy grail would be to turn a knob, and out comes the nanotube of the right diameter and chirality.
NASCAR, there's nothing wrong with it, it's very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.
Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
