In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification…

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

— Ian Hickson

“A specification is a clear and concise but complete description of the exact item desired so that all vendors have a common basis for…

— Ruby Parker Puckett

“This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at…

— Anonymous

“The item may be selected from a manufacturer’s or equipment supplier’s catalog rather than by writing a detailed specification.Δ”

— Ruby Parker Puckett

“software to specification. For the project to deliver what the customer needs requires a correct specification. Additionally, the delivered system must meet the specification.…

— Anonymous

“The quality desired, style, number of chips per pound, and total weight of the container should be included in a specification for butter.Δ”

— Ruby Parker Puckett

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the…

— Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence…

— Erik Naggum

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

— Ann Patchett

I've learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under…

— Bill Belichick

We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.

— Phil Crosby

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge…

— Peer Steinbruck

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

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second,…

— Allen W. Wood