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Quotes About Quality

You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
~ Douglas Adams
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask. ... On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live.
~ Douglas Adams
And that's why the American habit of bringing a teacup, a tea bag, and a pot of hot water to the table is merely the perfect way of making a thin, pale, watery cup of tea that nobody in their right mind would want to drink.
~ Douglas Adams
It seems odd, don't you think, that the quality of the food should vary inversely with the brightness of the lighting. Makes you wonder what culinary heights the kitchen staff could rise to if you confined them to perpetual darkness.
~ Douglas Adams
Birinin verdiÄŸi tavsiyenin kalitesini anlamak için o kiÅŸinin yaÅŸam?na bakmak gerekir.
~ Douglas Adams
Calitatea oric?rui sfat pe care îl are oricine de oferit trebuie s? fie evaluat? raportat la calitatea vieÈ›ii pe care acela chiar o duce.
~ Douglas Adams
Total Quality Management
~ Douglas Coupland
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
~ Aesop
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
~ Aesop
You yourself are English and yet you do not seem to appreciate the quality of the English reaction to a direct question. It is invariably one of suspicion and the natural result is reticence.
~ Agatha Christie
It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly." "Very few teachers can," I{Jerry}said. "Why not? They ought to." I agreed.
~ Agatha Christie
This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.
~ Ai Weiwei
People who can't make the simple distinction between what tastes good or bad have disqualified themselves from the human race," was one of his pet theories.
~ Akira Kurosawa
A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons .
~ Alain de Benoist
The Only Thing More Expensive Than Writing Software Is Writing Bad Software
~ Alan Cooper
The biggest drawback, of course, is that you immediately scare away all survivors, and your only remaining users will be apologists. This seriously skews the nature and quality of your feedback, condemning you to a clientele of technoid apologists, which is a relatively small segment. This is one reason why so few personal-computer software-product makers have successfully crossed over into mass markets.
~ Alan Cooper
I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
~ Alan Coren
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
~ Alan Dundes
Everytime you make a copy of the copy, you lose clarity.
~ Alan E. Nelson
In a very real and sobering way, we must actually become the gospel to the people around us—an expression of the real Jesus through the quality of our lives.
~ Alan Hirsch
Seth removed the skillet from the heat and then added a prohibitively expensive cup of chicken meal and brown rice dry dog food. The kibble Seth buys is so expensive I am surprised it doesn't come with gold leaf.
~ Alan Russell
Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
~ Alanis Morissette
Just because it came from the heart didn't make it good.
~ Alastair Reynolds
If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.
~ Jonathan Ive