Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to…

“Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense! If once right reason drives that…

— Alexander Pope

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who…

— John Henry Newman

Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself.…

— Jim Horning

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly…

— Sasa Stanisic

Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of…

— Bill Gates

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