#approximate

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

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Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life. ↗

— Robert Duvall

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Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. ↗

— Robert Brady

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I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. ↗

— Douglas Haig

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We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index. ↗

— Charles Vest

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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. ↗

— John Tukey

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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. ↗

— John Tukey

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An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one. ↗

— John Tuley

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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