Quotes About Specification

Hello Mr. Gluck, she'll say if he does. Sorry I'm late. I was having my face measured and rejected for being the wrong specification.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

My work sells for £10,000-plus, but my most lucrative piece was a private project that was sold for more than six figures -dollars, that is. The process of the Lego can take weeks, months, or even days. Each one I deliver to specification to each gallery because they want them brought to them fully formed.

The first value of software is its behavior. Programmers are hired to make machines behave in a way that makes or saves money for the stakeholders. We do this by helping the stakeholders develop a functional specification, or requirements document. Then we write the code that causes the stakeholder's machines to satisfy those requirements.

On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.

Moreover, the slightest 'mutation' of an algorithm (say a slight change in a Turing machine specification, or in its input tape) would tend to render it totally useless, and it is hard to see how actual improvements in algorithms could ever arise in this random way. (Even deliberate improvements are difficult without 'meanings' being available.

If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better.

Programmers and software engineers who dive into code without writing a spec tend to think they're cool gunslingers, shooting from the hip. They're not. They are terribly unproductive. They write bad code and produce shoddy software, and they threaten their projects by taking giant risks which are completely uncalled for.

The broadest usage of the term is for a formal representation or specification of what is common sense or objective reality to a human being.

It will not answer to explain what all the things which you describe are not. You must begin by saying what they are.

We might say that the three paragraphs we've just read were in service of increased specification.

I think, as a tire manufacturer, you need to deliver a product that, up to a certain specification, needs to hold the loads and the speed. But you want a tire which degrades in performance so the races are not boring, while at the same time, you want it to have peak performance. All together is a very difficult task.

Definition is a choice.

The battle for a fast system can be won or lost in specifying the problem it is to solve.

Naming a pattern immediately

They keep telling you what it is not, but never tell you what it is.

name) is an important part of the process whereby the infinitely complex world of phenomena and fact is reduced to the functional world of value. And it is continual interaction with social institutions that makes this reduction—this specification—possible.

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

early theories of the origin of life did not need to address, nor did they anticipate, this problem. Since scientists did not know about the information-bearing properties of DNA, or how the cell uses that functionally specified information to build proteins, they did not worry about explaining these features of life.

Strangely, the job description did not specify that as a requirement.

When designing thread-safe classes, good object-oriented techniques—encapsulation, immutability, and clear specification of invariants—are your best friends.

He had way mixed feelings about Fineas Rigg; in some ways he was interesting, and attractive as a pesonality, in others he was seriously unpleasant, although Ays could never specify how exactly. Fineas was always polite and friendly.