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Quotes About Quality

The number of errors in code correlates strongly with the amount of code and the complexity of the code.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Who bears witness to Muhammad? Himself. Jesus Christ wants his witness to be nothing. The quality of witnesses means they must always and everywhere be wretched. He is alone.
~ Blaise Pascal
What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge, but its quality. You can know many things without knowing that which is most important. There are two types of ignorance, the pure, natural ignorance into which all people are born, and the ignorance of the so-called wise. You will see that many among those who call themselves scholars do not know real life, and they despise simple people and simple things.
~ Blaise Pascal
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyretechnics associated with us
~ Bob Woodward
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
~ Booker T. Washington
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.
~ Booth Tarkington
They did not know that the misfortune of having average taste is a great deal worse than the misfortune of having no taste at all.
~ Boris Pasternak
a desgraça de um gosto mediano é ainda pior do que a desgraça de não ter gosto nenhum
~ Boris Pasternak
God gave laws to His people to bless them, not to burden them. Every rule either elevates the quality of human life or restores one's relationship with God after a breach. He makes no extraneous demands and He is never capricious.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
We've wasted our shining medical assets because of a health care payment system—or, more precisely, a crazy quilt of several overlapping and often conflicting systems—that prevents millions from receiving the treatment they need and that undermines the quality of care for millions more.
~ T.R. Reid
The poem which is absolutely original is absolutely bad.
~ T.S. Eliot
Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.
~ Tahir Shah
not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency—the currency by which we take measure of our lives.
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
The technical qualities of a product matter, but the way the product is experienced is more important.
~ Julian Birkinshaw
Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.
~ Julian Fellowes
I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.
~ Julianna Margulies
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.
~ Julio Cortazar
Those who harbour illusions about the possibility of a purely political struggle and the power of this or that formula or system, with no new human quality as its exact counterpart, have learned no lessons from the past.
~ Julius Evola
The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.
~ Justina Chen Headley
Admiration is a wonderful thing. I like it the same way I like hundred-year-old brandy, and both of them come my way about as frequently. The other similarity is the way it goes to my head,
~ K.J. Parker
I think that's all the facts I can remember. If you like we can talk a bit more about metaphysics, or I can tell you some stories about my life as a soldier; you could go back and check the references, to give you an idea of the quality of my memory and powers of observation. I'd rather not, though, since you might use them to work out who I could be; somebody important who was at the same battles as I was. Purely by coincidence, you understand.
~ K.J. Parker
We can bring quality into the details of life if we remember to be and act with precision. If we can consciously be at that point where the horizontal force of active choice meets the vertical force of Being, a certain "something", larger than life, will be activated. This "something" can be felt in anything produced by the hands and hearts of a conscious human being – in works of art, in a well-tended garden, in food prepared with love.
~ Kabir Edmund Helminski
This is how you know you aren't young any more: you start to care more about thread count than immediate gratification.
~ Kamila Shamsie