“The actual quote attributed to Russell is, "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realise till you have tried to make it precise."”

“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.”

“You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there.


(Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)”

“Matt Morgan: [To Russell] How have you developed pectoral muscles when you barely do anything for yourself?”

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

“You do realise, doctor, that you have killed her?”

“I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.”

“It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.”

“I tried to find out what had happened to you. I Googled you in quotes- got no results.”

“When do these three days expire?"
"That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague."
"The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.”