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Quotes About Poorly

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
~ Alan Perlis
the stoutest Nehru defender must admit that the Indian prime minister responded poorly and also unwisely to the challenge that China presented
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat's maze poorly.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly.
~ Patrick deWitt
I imagine it is because you can lead him to a story for his newspaper, and if it is for his paper, it must be something to make Hamilton look poorly.
~ David Liss
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
~ Alan Perlis
I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.
~ Mitchell Baker
I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.
~ H. Jon Benjamin
Members of Congress and their staffs should be the first to feel the negative consequences of poorly written legislation, not the last.
~ Jeff Duncan
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
~ Dennis Miller
The player option allows me to, hopefully, sign a lucrative deal in my prime, before retirement. If you're in a situation where you've played to a level where you can make more money, then you opt out and you make more money. And if you play really poorly, then you opt in and take the money that's scheduled to be on that piece of paper.
~ Spencer Dinwiddie
A system just can't respond to short-term changes when it has long term delays. That's why a massive central-planning system, such as the Soviet Union or General Motors, necessarily functions poorly.
~ Donella H. Meadows
The only way to fix a system that is laid out poorly is to rebuild it, if you can.
~ Donella H. Meadows
When things are done right, be emotional. When things are done poorly, be nonemotional, matter-of-fact, and consequential.
~ Jim Fay
When the outcome turns out poorly, it's easy to focus on the details that suggest the decision process was poor. We think we are seeing the decision quality rationally because the bad process is obvious.
~ Annie Duke
Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.
~ Frances Arnold
It was vague in meaning and poorly enforced and so riddled with loopholes that it was popularly derided as the Swiss Cheese Act.
~ Ron Chernow
For fun, I love to play the drums... poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds - we got together, and we're like, 'Let's play rock music for three hours and never take breaks.' We call ourselves The U.S. Open.
~ William Jackson Harper
As Keyes noted, one bet soundly considered is preferable to many poorly understood.
~ Roger Lowenstein
A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
~ Mark W. Boyer
A motivational love collapses itself, as the poorly constructed objects. Of course, no one bothers and regrets such love.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
~ Gregg Easterbrook
Then he returned to his room and switched on the evening news. The world was doing poorly;
~ Anne Tyler