Quotes About Testing

The love of new ideas is a myth: we prefer ideas only after others have tested them.

You see a similar downward spiral at schools that try to measure teacher performance. They create new student tests for evaluating teachers that reduce time teachers have to teach real lessons, which lowers their scores, which, sad surprise, leads to more testing.

Depending on anecdotal reports from users was a poor system. It'd be like running a restaurant where you waited for customers to complain about the food instead of tasting it ourselves before it left the kitchen.

anyone in command feigns ease when death is near. We do it for those around us, and we do it for ourselves. We do it because the sole alternative is to die cringing. The difference between an experienced leader and an untested one is that only the untested one is shocked at how well they can pretend when their hand is forced.

The producer's responsibilities include hiring and building teams; writing contracts; contributing to the game's design; managing the team's work schedule; balancing the game's budget; resolving disputes between creative and programming leads; acting as the team representative to upper management and publishers; coordinating the creation of outside resources such as art, music, and cutscenes; and arranging testing and localization.

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. (1 Pet. 4:12–13 NIV)

Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

Maybe [Iceland] could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented nation. Everybody is a gadget freak. We spend a lot of time indoors.

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

Until we come up with an unequivocal blood test or the equivalent, we're all blowing smoke and don't know if what we call schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are one disorder or a dozen.

Until we come up with an unequivocal blood test or the equivalent, we're all blowing smoke and don't know if what we call schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are one disorder or a dozen.

Es bedeutete: mehr Prüfungen, aber auch da muss ich sagen, ich hab ganz gerne feste Perspektiven, vorhersehbare Paniksituationen, auf die ich meine Ängste konzentrieren kann.

Such reconnaissance duties became a major feature of the war in the air. There were also new devices to be tested: on December 6 a metal arrow dropped from a French plane mortally wounded a German general on horseback.

Consideraría impertinente que sometiese a una prueba más severa sus teorías? —Todo lo contrario —me contestó—; con ello me evitaría una segunda dosis de cocaína.

Mostly, the experiments did more harm than good.

no matter how careful we might be, no matter how much thought we might put in, a checklist has to be tested in the real world, which is inevitably more complicated than expected. First drafts always fall apart, he said, and one needs to study how, make changes, and keep testing until the checklist works consistently.

First drafts always fall apart, he said, and one needs to study how, make changes, and keep testing until the checklist works consistently

without a biopsy, we cannot rule it out." He paused for a moment to let her and her father absorb this.