Defects Quotes

343 quotes by 269 authors

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. — John Calvin
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,… — Ayn Rand
The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a… — Ludwig von Mises
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves — Francois Fenelon
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property… — Clarence Darrow
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is… — Fred Brooks
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects. — Barry Boehm
Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack. — Tom DeMarco
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we… — W. Somerset Maugham
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure… — Czeslaw Milosz
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and… — Eduardo Galeano
Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood byÂ everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately… — Taiichi Ohno
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading. — Charlotte Mason
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. — Laozi
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that… — Wietse Venema
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. — Bainbridge Colby
If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others? — Josemaria Escriva
Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world. — Owen Feltham
I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks… — Umar
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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