“Even if we can never quantify [satisfaction or happiness]… as precisely as we currently quantify GNP,… perhaps it is better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.”

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”

“We speak of people "taking refuge" in vagueness — the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.”

“Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.”

“… A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”

“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”

“The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.”

“Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man…”

“It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.”

“Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be”