Quotes About Quality

I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in.

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong.

Regulations force people to do better.

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

There are problems with the wombat, Nathan Schick said. I was interested in wombats in '29. I went up to your zoo in Sydney and looked at the wombat. The fellow said you could train them but God, Herbie, no offence... Lee-Anne... but the wombat is not star quality.

in its people decisions, management must demonstrate that it realizes that integrity is one absolute requirement of a manager, the one quality that he has to bring with him and cannot be expected to acquire later on. And management must demonstrate that it requires the same integrity of itself.

F]or a thing to be evil, one single defect suffices, whereas for it to be good . . . it is not enough for it to be good in one point only, it must be good in every respect. . . .

The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.

It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily in human form…In case I should need them, instructions for passage through the Bardo are contained in the Tibetan book of the dead- a guide for the living since it teaches that a man's last thoughts will determine the quality of his reincarnation.

roast lamb from Sisteron, "the best lamb in France

One cannot judge by book being best seller. We all know that. Many best sellers are terrible trash.

A Gresham's Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real.

Jamás había pensado en la semejanza entre los animales eléctricos y los andrillos. Un animal eléctrico era una forma inferior, un robot de menor calidad.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

I'm the only one who gives her a whole can of tuna for lunch, and I'm not talking dreck, either. I'm talking Chicken of the Sea, Alex.

T2 is thus also the first and best instance of a paradoxical law that appears to hold true for the entire F/X Porn genre. It is called the Inverse Cost and Quality Law, and it states very simply that the larger a movie's budget is, the shittier that movie is going to be. - from The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2

It is important to note that while goods are consumed, services are experienced.

lower tacit-knowledge depreciation when we have less work-in-progress, resulting in higher quality.

When teams are asked to work together to analyze problems and design solutions, the quality is higher.

It appears evident that, for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality.