Quotes About Quality

Nothing appalled Deming more than the idea of the interchangeable manager. "What is the motivation and purpose of men like this?" he would say with contempt. "Do they even know what they do anymore? What do they produce?" All they knew about was numbers, not product. All they thought about was maximum profit, not excellence of product.

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

They are consequently conjoined with each other in the conception; and the general idea of a line, notwithstanding all our abstractions and refinements, has in its appearance in the mind a precise degree of quantity and quality; however it may be made to represent others, which have different degrees of both.

When we have found a resemblance [FN 2.] among several objects, that often occur to us, we apply the same name to all of them, whatever differences we may observe in the degrees of their quantity and quality, and whatever other differences may appear among them. After we have acquired a custom of this kind, the hearing of that name revives the idea of one of these objects, and makes the imagination conceive it with all its particular circumstances and proportions.

Put simply, excessive defects are the biggest waste in software development

encourage teams to inspect code every day for at least 30 minutes.

Reducing the quantity of design-in-progress boosts software quality.

Raw data, like raw potatoes, usually require cleaning before use. Ronald A. Thisted

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.

Da Rosa for pots of Christine Ferber's confitures and oval pats of handmade butter from Jean-Yves Bordier. She must

croissant ordinaire, made with margarine, rather than a croissant au beurre.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style.

Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

I've been worrying about God a little bit lately... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting.

Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).

God didn't make junk.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.