Quotes About Testing

A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material.

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The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Examinations are even entertaining, if you know the right answers.

Whenever possible, at least 10 to 15 mL of blood should be withdrawn and inoculated into 2 or 3 bottles or tubes at a ratio of 1 mL of blood per 5 mL of medium.

the ultimate unit test is whether or not users want to use your application. All the other tests you write are totally irrelevant until you can get that one to pass.

most developers don't test at all! They key in a few values at random and click a few buttons. If they don't get any unhandled exceptions, that code is ready for QA!

Usability testing is useful, necessary, and inefficient.

Now, if you don't mind, we're going to get some hair samples, tissue samples, saliva samples, fingernail samples, urine samples, and stool samples." "Would you like a booger, too?" "Actually, yes, let's get a mucus sample while we're at it.

Willow trees dipped their bare branches into pond water like girls testing the temperature with their toes.

The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain. If God were God, if He were omnipotent, if He had cared, would this have happened? Is this that I face now the ratification of my calling, the reward of obedience?

Traffic with the world is laid upon us for chastening, and for the testing of our vocation. The grace of God is not endangered by the follies or the wickedness of men.

In some ways they had come to know themselves better. In this lonely world of ice and emptiness, they had achieved at least a limited kind of contentment. They had been tested and found not wanting.

The torturing and testing of parents, is followed by shortage (of sustenance), and being driven towards belittlement and humiliation.

There was a saying that the strength of a man's steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance.

children only begin to understand differences in desires when they are about eighteen months old...Toddlers are systematically testing the dimensions on which their desires and the desires of others may be in conflict... The terrible twos reflects a genuine clash between children's need to understand other people and their need to live happily with them.

Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

For me, major championships have a way of testing my system a bit more, and testing all aspects of my game. Majors test even very good players' weaknesses, and that aspect tends to play into the better players' hands.

'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.

Failed weapons tests are necessary components of the weapons development process.