Quotes About Quality

it's done by creating 25 times as many dirty tests

the error rate in manual testing is comparable to the bug rate in the code being tested.

Design is sloppy because a good solution is often only subtly different from a poor one.

code reading detected about 80 percent more faults per hour than testing

Great video comes from thinking humans, not equipment.

Don't run the camera nonstop. Even if you're going to edit later, it's a bad habit that will only cost you time when you have to watch tons of thoughtless, unusable footage.

Being correct is like the phase-lock states of the human brain, all the neurons firing in perfect synchrony. We need the phase-lock state for the same reason we need truth: a world of complete error and chaos would be unmanageable, on a social and a neurochemical level. (Not to mention genetic.) But leaving some room for generative error is important, too. Innovative environments thrive on useful mistakes, and suffer when the demands of quality control overwhelm them.

I often find that when a ruthless editor forces me to trim an article to fit into a certain number of column-inches, the quality of my prose improves as if by magic. Brevity is the soul of wit, and of many other virtues in writing.

discriminate between the principles that improve the quality of prose and the superstitions, fetishes, shibboleths, and initiation ordeals that have been passed down in the traditions of usage. The

people today live far more years in the pink of health than their ancestors lived altogether, healthy and infirm years combined

According to studies of writing quality, a varied vocabulary and the use of unusual words are two of the features that distinguish sprightly prose from mush.

The fact that mean measures of environmental quality are improving does not mean that everything is ok. That the environment got better by itself or that we can just sit back and relax for the cleaner environment that we enjoy today, we must thank the arguments, activism, legislation, regulation, treaties and technological ingenuity of the people who sought to improve it in the past.

Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

I can only tell you this-I would rather have taste than either love or money.

I love good, loud speakers.

In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

I think that's what we love about the vodka, is that it's consistent. It's consistent in its pureness and that's how I tie it to restaurants.