The perfect design should place a premium upon sound judgment as well as accurate striking, by rewarding the correct placing of each shot. Mere length is its own reward, but length without control ought to be punished.

The phrase, Seeing is believing, is often explained as, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. In truth, our minds work in the reverse. An accurate description of human perception is: I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

The polygraph is the traditional gold standard and has been around for some 30 or 40 years now. But even though it's the best we have today, it's not an accurate method of detecting deception, which is a great danger.

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.

The only way you can be 100 percent accurate is if you read it.