Specifications Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
— Henry James
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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The…
— Jim Horning
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Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various…
— Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
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Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
— Vernon Howard
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I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do…
— Amar Bose
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In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant…
— Marshall McLuhan
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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
— Salman Rushdie
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Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
— Raymond Carver
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Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands…
— Tana French
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Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,…
— Henry James
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None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book…
— Marcel Proust
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I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure…
— George Saunders
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An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
— Lazarus Long
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Imperfections are specifications, not what you lack..
— Raghib Clitso
Who Wrote These Specifications Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Specifications Quotes as follows: