Quotes About Verification

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

Never trust someone who won't allow you to prove them wrong. In most cases, they already know they are.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

The old bit about only believing half of what you see and none of what you read no longer applies. The American people believe everything they see on the TV and those that do read, believe all of what's in print. `It has to be true otherwise they wouldn't print it?

If you're going to make up stories about miracles and events that you are claiming really happened, you have to wait until all the eyewitnesses are dead and gone.

If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, it's a duck, right?

Scientific Approach 7 Systematic Empiricism 7 Public Verification 7 Solvable Problems 8 The Scientist's Two Jobs:

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

There'll be a little metal fleck in the football, so you can tell for sure whether the guy with the ball got over the goal line or was pushed back.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Una prueba es una

Always verify quotations!

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir.

Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.

Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ even if you write it yourself.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

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

To me, legacy code is simply code without tests.

Expectations Alignment No matter how well you think you understand what you're expected to do, be sure to check and recheck expectations once you formally join your new organization. Why? Because understandings that are developed before you join—about mandates, support, and resources—may not prove to be fully accurate once you're in the job.

Code without tests is bad code. It doesn't matter how well written it is; it doesn't matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really don't know if our code is getting better or worse.