Quotes About Quality

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.

A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.