Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement…

I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly…

— Lee De Forest

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

— Niklaus Wirth

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

— Niklaus Wirth

Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True refinement avoids…

— J.R. Miller

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of…

— Anonymous

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

— William Hazlitt

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring…

— Edward Gibbon

There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It…

— Frederick Lenz

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class…

— James Henry Hammond

As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold? Power is…

— Frederick Lenz

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose.…

— Eliot Noyes

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

— Natasha Tsakos