Specifications Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. — Henry James
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
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
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
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
Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven. — Vernon Howard
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
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
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
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
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. — Raymond Carver
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
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
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
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
An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. — Lazarus Long
Imperfections are specifications, not what you lack.. — Raghib Clitso

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