Quotes About Quality

Five thousand Don Hecks are not worth one Neal Adams.

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when you are committed to spending a hundred thousand or a million dollars, you can't fix it later. You need to have a system of checks and balances internally. In particle physics, that's just part of the structure.

If I'm doing an event, if it's a charity event, where it's a walk-around event, where I gotta put a thousand small plates out in the course of a four-hour event, I gotta make sure I can do something that I know I can produce, that's going to be consistent and good all night long.

The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to 350 thousand pixels - pretty crude, given that photos made with your iPhone boast five million pixels.

Anybody can make a thousand dollar garment because you find the finest fabric and the finest mills, and you churn that out.

Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

An oyster tastes good because at one spot in the natural world, something went right. A great oyster is an estuary flashing a thumbs-up sign.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

I firmly believe in shutting up when you've got nothing worthwhile to say. There's nothing worse than these writers who churn out book after book, each one a little duller, until nobody can remember why they liked them in the first place.

good omelettes are still hard to come by. They shouldn't be made in a hurried or slapdash manner. Some thought has to go into an omelette. And a little love too. It's like writing a book—done much better with some feeling!

Write the tests first, or second, or third. But write the darned tests.

Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.

a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality.

To live is well, but to live well is better

Our job is like a baker's work -- his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Most people will grow only with pain, not with pleasure. It's unfortunate, but that's the truth. Generally people only go down with pleasure. They don't go up with pleasure. Please see, the quality of a human being is like this: when life offers more and more pleasures to a man, he doesn't grow. He goes down. In terms of the real quality of a human being, only when suffering comes, when pain comes, does a man stand up as a human being.

This moment, the quality of your life is simply decided by how peaceful and joyous you are right now within yourself. That is all that decides the quality of your life. So