Break Quote by Bill James

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Yet, standardization only leads to sameness, not necessarily quality, and rarely to excellence (p. 9).”

— Thomas Newkirk

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

— Henry Ford

“Standardization Is the Basis for Continuous Improvement and Quality”

— Jeffrey K. Liker

Uniformity is the friend of scalability.

— Karl Iagnemma

When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation,…

— Confucius

Flexibility is the key to stability.

— John Wooden

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

— George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

— Masaaki Imai

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

— Jewel

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

— Ted Cruz

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

— Anonymous