Quotes About Evaluation

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Yet it would be a failure of imagination if we were to start out-as today's histories sometimes do-by simply judging people of the past for having outlooks that are not like our own. Rather, we must first try to enter sympathetically into an earlier world and to understand its people. Once we do that we will be in a far better position both to learn from them and to evaluate their outlooks critically.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

I have taught my Margaery what comely is worth, I hope. Less than a mummer's fart.

It please her to think that she made a better king than Robert.

Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

Como nunca antes, el estudiante y la persona interesada por la literatura lee comentarios y críticas de libros más que los propios libros, o antes de esforzarse por formarse un juicio personal.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.

If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then ask: Will these tests cost more to execute than their answers will be worth?

Good testing involves balancing the need to mitigate risk against the risk of trying to gather too much information.

There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so.

Denise: "So your present project is ready to pass to the testing people?" Ralph: "Absolutely." Denise: "Okay, since you're so sure it's adequately tested, I'm going to make you the following generous offer: If fewer than three bugs turn up in your component during testing, I will give you a raise. But if three or more bugs turn up during testing, you won't earn a raise this year." Ralph: "Um . . ." Denise: "Um what?" "Could I just have the component back for a few little tests I want to do?

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

You never get a second chance to have a first impression.

Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

The good composer is slowly discovered, the bad composer is slowly found out.

Time is the only critic without ambition.