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Where God lives, the devil hides, and amateurs go to die.
means A small individual part or feature of something larger, or the act of attending to such small parts with care.
from From French détail, from détailler, 'to cut into pieces' — built from de- ('apart') plus tailler, 'to cut.' That tailler is the same root behind 'tailor' and 'tally,' all tracing back to Latin talea, a 'cutting' or 'slip' taken from a plant. So a 'detail' was literally something sliced off the whole — a piece small enough to examine on its own. The military sense (a 'detail' of soldiers told off for a task) grew from the same idea: a small portion cut from the larger body.
- origin
- From French detailler, meaning to cut into pieces
- military sense
- A detail is also a small assigned squad
- forensic edge
- Cases crack on the thing nobody noticed
- design law
- Steve Jobs obsessed over unseen interior screws
- brain trap
- Too much detail can hide the bigger pattern
the detail magazine — german architecture and design publication founded in 1971, still influential in construction documentation
detail in contract law — specific terms that distinguish parol evidence rule applications in courts worldwide