Quotes About Standardization

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This means that even as we try to standardize what we do, we should continue to think critically about what we do and the approaches we use.

Manufacturers turn out standard products. By analogy, if you can pin down what kind of interruptions you're getting, you can prepare standard responses for those that pop up most often.

The formation of a unified standard (biblical) text probably also involved the elimination of terms and structures that were too archaic to be understood so many centuries after the material had first been composed.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It's not gourmet food, but the french fries they order in Indianapolis are just like the french fries they order in Tampa. Wherever they get McDonald's fries, they know it will be the same. That's what McDonald's does.

Standardized tests don't care if you're white or black, short or tall, or even the rate at which you learned the course material. At the end of the day, all it cares about is whether you know what you're supposed to know. It can't be cheated, bent, or bargained with.

He knew that some believed that standardization would impede innovation; that was one of the arguments people who resisted standardization were most inclined to make. But Barton was not so sure of that.

Hombres y mujeres estandarizados, en grupos uniformes. Todo el personal de una fábrica podía ser el producto de un sólo óvulo bokanovskificado. - ¡Noventa y seis mellizos trabajando en noventa y seis máquinas idénticas! -La voz del director casi temblaba de entusiasmo-. Sabemos muy bien adónde vamos. Por primera vez en la historia. -Citó la divisa planetario-: Comunidad, Identidad, Estabilidad.

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

Al final todo se iguala según el nivel más bajo.

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

The computer tends to equalize everything, all the movies are slowly blending together, the way they look.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

since the AP curriculum was nationally standardized. If they wanted to turn the public schools into chain stores, it worked for him.

The sheer magnitude and sameness of mass-produced and mass-marketed goods that Americans have grown to expect can be really disorienting.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

Variety is disappearing from the human race; the same ways of acting, thinking, and feeling are to be met with all over the world.

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with 'explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying, dissipating universe, that we can help our children avoid by providing them with "explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.