Break Quote by Vernon Howard

“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