Quotes About Robustness

#1. You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

John Carmack

#2. I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

Pat Metheny

#3. Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial, the move away from ancestral and natural models, and the loss in robustness owing to complications in the design of everything, the role of Black Swans in increasing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

Howard Jacobson

#5. Given the unattainability of perfect robustness, we need a mechanism by which the system regenerates itself continuously by using, rather than suffering from, random events, unpredictable shocks, stressors, and volatility.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.

Henry Petroski

#8. Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.

Boris Beizer

#9. Our health as a society, our robustness as a community, as a nation, as a people, is not only dependent upon fiscal stability, military might, political strength - it's also dependent on a healthy planet.

Jeff Corwin

#10. The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

Thomas Guthrie

#11. We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.

Norman Cousins

#12. I would do 'Superbad,' and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.

Bill Hader

#13. When I started writing the music, I wanted everything to be consistent from the way I dressed to the way I presented myself online. I wanted everything to match what I was doing on stage.

Leon Bridges

#14. Believe in the character; animate with sincerity

Glen Keane

#15. It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

Bob Ehrlich

#16. What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

Mark Zuckerberg

#17. Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

Douglas Adams

#18. A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

Peter Fenn

#19. John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

Donald Pleasence

#20. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#21. He'd set me adrift, so very long ago, and I had wandered into deepest waters, with depths far too vast for me to navigate alone. And here he was, swimming out to save me. Had he been following me all the while? Had I been so blind? Still,

R.K. Lilley

#22. I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

Aaron Rodgers

#23. I don't give a shit how it happened, the window is broken ... Wait, why is there syrup everywhere? Okay, you know what? Now I give a shit how it happened, Let's hear it.

Justin Halpern

#24. The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

Bertrand Russell

#25. Concentrate on your strength and strongly build your strength whilst others concentrate on your weakness! When your strength is strong enough, you shall surely put them to shame with your strength, and they shall surely see their own weakness better!.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#26. I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.

Neal Stephenson

#27. Be robust enough to work more than a robot!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah