Quotes About Quality

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.

If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then ask: Will these tests cost more to execute than their answers will be worth?

When people who are driven by a vision see something wrong, they might say to their teammates, "I feel bad because we're not building the kind of system we can be proud of. What shall we do so we don't feel this way?" On

Testing does not improve a product; the improving is done by people fixing the bugs that testing has uncovered.

Testing may convincingly demonstrate the presence of bugs, but can never demonstrate their absence."- Edsger W. Dijkstra, Computing Pioneer (1930–2002), "Programming as a discipline of mathematical nature," Am. Math. Monthly, 81 (1974), No. 6, pp. 608–12.

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

Quality is value to some person.

My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any means. I do not speak of book learning. I speak of a certain innate quality of mind, a superior understanding. Because she had it not, their companionship was - diminished. Father looked to his books, rather than to his wife.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

The best is the cheapest.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

In almost any society, I think, the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as, and no better than that of the conformists.

I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days.

He profits most who serves best.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?