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Quotes About Features

Split testing often uncovers surprising things. For example, many features that make the product better in the eyes of engineers and designers have no impact on customer behavior.
~ Eric Ries
Part of the answer certainly lies in the fact that using software does not decrease its value. Indeed, widespread use of open-source software tends to increase its value, as users fold in their own fixes and features (code patches). In this inverse commons, the grass grows taller when it's grazed upon.
~ Eric S. Raymond
The user and manufacturer categorization of relationships between innovator and innovation can be extended to specific functions, attributes, or features of products and services. When
~ Eric von Hippel
manufacturer categorization of relationships between innovator and innovation can be extended to specific functions, attributes, or features of products and services. When
~ Eric von Hippel
Art is the child of Nature yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
~ Beck
Don't get me wrong, I like the countryside. In fact, some of my best friends are geographical features.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Physically, too, he had faded, his features become indistinct, as if a fine sifting of dust had settled uniformly over him.
~ Benjamin Black
The AW14 collection is inspired by Film Noir. Elements of masculinity and femininity were reflected in the fabric, tailoring, and features.
~ Emilia Wickstead
The bartender was another old, gray-haired fat guy. It seemed like a joke, how much all these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just erased your features, rubbed out anything distinctive.
~ Gillian Flynn
My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.
~ Raquel Welch
Though we endow them with human features - heads, faces, heels, toes - golf clubs are profoundly inhuman tools.
~ Steve Rushin
Maybe one reason I do not wear makeup is to scare people. If they're close enough, they can see something is different with me, something unnerving, as if I have no features, I am embryonic, pre-eyebrows, pre-eyelids, pre-mouth, I am like a water bear talking to them, or an amniotic traveler, a vitreous floater on their own eyeball, human ectoplasm risen on its hind legs to discourse with them.
~ Sharon Olds
These features make sense, argues Davies, if you wish to mould people into suitable recruits for a conscript army to fight Napoleon.
~ Matt Ridley
Because HTML is a living language, an HTML page will never become obsolete and stop working. HTML pages will never use a version number (even in the doctype), and web developers will never need to "upgrade" their markup from one version to another to get it to work on new browsers. By the same token, new features may be added to HTML at any time.
~ Matthew MacDonald
He still looked handsome. Not in the same way as Noah. Noah wasn't flawless. He had no single amazing feature. Instead, he had a confluence of agreeable aspects that were accepted by one and all to add up to one very attractive whole, perfectly packaged in the right clothes.
~ Maureen Johnson
His features had the fine precision of sculpture. His hair was black and straight, swept back. The suntan of his skin intensified the startling color of his eyes: they were a pure, clear blue. His face was open, its rapid changes of expression reflecting whatever he felt, as if he had nothing to hide. The blue eyes were still and changeless, never giving a hint of what he thought.
~ Ayn Rand
In the dim light her eyes looked more gray than blue. I liked the way the lighting softened her features, the way it rendered her eyes, even her smile, alluringly ambiguous.
~ Barry Eisler
If people think about options in terms of their features rather than as a whole, different options may rank as second best (or even best) with respect to each individual feature.
~ Barry Schwartz
Unlike procedural programming, which emphasizes algorithms, OOP emphasizes the data. Rather than try to fit a problem to the procedural approach of a language, OOP attempts to fit the language to the problem. The idea is to design data forms that correspond to the essential features of a problem.
~ Stephen Prata
Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.
~ Ernest Brammah Smith
My accusation seemed to detonate on his face like a bomb. His features began to contort, but I turned my back on him so I wouldn't have to see the rest of his reaction. I walked out of there as fast as I could without looking
~ Ernest Cline
There was nothing wistful or tentative about that smile. It came slowly, but ended in a total crunching of her features as though a winged cherub had just flown by and whispered a marvelously funny joke into her ear.
~ Eva Ibbotson
But there is a silver lining here. By inspiring people to learn the fundamental features of nature described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, creationists can actually inspire a richer appreciation of the mechanism of evolution.
~ Bill Nye
I've chosen television because of the quality of material that I'm offered, not being a writer, so I've turned a lot of features down.
~ David Nutter