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Quotes About Quality

The reasons for the failure of the Leninist economic model have been studied thoroughly and in the case of North Korea they were essentially the same as elsewhere: distorted price information, lack of incentives for innovation and quality improvement, and an ingrained inability to handle data efficiently.
~ Andrei Lankov
Hemos llegado a una situación en la que el público prefiere cualquier basura comercial a Fresas salvajes de Bergman o a El eclipse de Antonioni
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.
~ Andrew Carnegie
More testing should be done automatically. It's important to note that by automatically we meant that the test /results/ are interpreted automatically as well.
~ Andrew Hunt
Most people assume that maintenance begins when an application is released, that maintenance means fixing bugs and enhancing features. We think these people are wrong.
~ Andrew Hunt
One broken window—a badly designed piece of code, a poor management decision that the team must live with for the duration of the project—is all it takes to start the decline. If you find yourself working on a project with quite a few broken windows, it's all too easy to slip into the mindset of All the rest of this code is crap, I'll just follow suit.
~ Andrew Hunt
Kaizen is a Japanese term that captures the concept of continuously making many small improvements. It was considered to be one of the main reasons for the dramatic gains in productivity and quality in Japanese manufacturing and was widely copied throughout the world. Kaizen applies to individuals, too. Every day, work to refine the skills you have and to add new tools to your repertoire.
~ Andrew Hunt
Don't leave broken windows (bad designs, wrong decisions, or poor code) unrepaired.
~ Andrew Hunt
The scope and quality of the system you produce should be specified as part of that system's requirements.
~ Andrew Hunt
Tip 1 Care About Your Craft We feel that there is no point in developing software unless you care about doing it well.
~ Andrew Hunt
If humility is the first, the all-inclusive grace of the life of Jesus—if humility is the secret of His atonement—then the health and strength of our spiritual life will depend entirely upon our putting this grace first and making humility the chief quality we admire in Him, the chief attribute we ask of Him, the one thing for which we sacrifice all else.
~ Andrew Murray
The life God gives is not all at once, but moment by moment, through the unceasing operation of His mighty power. Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty of the creature, and the root of every good quality.
~ Andrew Murray
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty of the creature, and the root of every good quality.
~ Andrew Murray
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty of the creature, and the root of every good quality. Likewise, pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
~ Andrew Murray
And when we do put on a video or otherwise fire up a screen for a purpose, we'll follow another principle: never entertain your children with anything you find unsatisfying, just like you shouldn't feed your children anything you don't enjoy eating yourself. Feed them with food that is both tasty and nutritious—and entertain them with movies, books, and stories that are both tasty and nutritious too.
~ Andy Crouch
She had a poignantly vacant, vulnerable quality that made her a reflection of everybody's private fantasies.
~ Andy Warhol
I know good cooks who'll spend days finding fresh garlic and fresh basil and fresh tarragon, etc., and then use canned tomatoes for the sauce, saying it doesn't matter. But I know it does matter.
~ Andy Warhol
the light had the clear, sharp quality which comes before rain.
~ Ann Cleeves
This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter. But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.
~ Sam Harris
How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives.
~ Sam Harris
But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.
~ Sam Harris
But I'm going to say it again anyway: the secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from your point of view as a customer, you want everything: a wide assortment of good quality merchandise; the lowest possible prices; guaranteed satisfaction with what you buy; friendly, knowledgeable service; convenient hours; free parking; a pleasant shopping experience.
~ Sam Walton
Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good is not original!
~ Samuel Johnson
AMURCOSITY  (AMURCO'SITY)   n.s.[amurca, Lat.]The quality of lees or mother of any thing.
~ Samuel Johnson