Quotes About Specifications

#1. manage the community outside of the CIA. An official observed, "The CIA director managed the CIA; it was the best job in the world. Managing the IC meant going out to the NRO and sitting through a three-hour meeting about satellite specifications. So it just was not done well."3

Michael Allen

#2. Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.

Eugene Grace

#3. Meeting specifications is not enough.

W. Edwards Deming

#4. We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.

Phil Crosby

#5. This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections from the contents list and following all the cross-references.

Anonymous

#6. 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

#7. To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#8. You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard.

Peer Steinbruck

#9. Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.

Vernon Howard

#10. But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, 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 of specifications or a last testament; our social personality is a creation of the minds of others.

Marcel Proust

#11. More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#12. Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.

Bryant McGill

#13. 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 mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

Charles Dudley Warner

#14. 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, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness ... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.

Henry James

#15. 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 was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

Amar Bose

#16. There's a lot of people I know who have a lot of synthesisers and they don't really know anything about them, they know the specifications and everything, but they don't really get to know them.

Thighpaulsandra

#17. 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 things.

Alfred North Whitehead

#18. US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.

Mary Roach

#19. 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 tone for every occasion.

Marshall McLuhan

#20. She learns, after she finishes the job, that she programmed very well the specifications as delivered to her, but that they were deficient. If she had only known the purpose of the program, she could have done it right for the purpose, even though the specifications were deficient.

W. Edwards Deming

#21. Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

Raymond Carver

#22. 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 usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.

Marshall McLuhan

#23. Mathilde was there in the dawn, this perfect girl as if made to his specifications. [A different life, had Lotto listened to the terror: no glory, no plays; peace, ease, and money. No glamour; children. Which life was better? Not for us to say.]

Lauren Groff

#24. Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

Henry James

#25. The original specifications for Apollo navigation called for the ability to fly a complete mission, including a lunar landing, with no help from Earth - none, not even voice communications.

Henry Spencer

#26. The problem with military policies that are built to domestic specifications and do not take into account the complexity of the real world is that eventually the real world intrudes.

David Halberstam

#27. There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.

China Mieville

#28. The job has not been done to Admiral Hyman Rickover's specifications. He admonished, "Nature is not as forgiving as Christ.

Bernd Heinrich

#29. The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Thomas A Kempis

#30. Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

Fran Lebowitz

#31. Everyone - rich or poor, black or white, educated or not - is in emotional turmoil, in some sort of pain. (51)

Keith Ablow

#32. A woman says to a man, "I haven't seen you around here." "Yes, I just got out of jail for killing my wife." "So you're single!"

Henny Youngman

#33. Joblessness gives you access to a vast number of resources

Sunday Adelaja

#34. A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, - the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Kate Chopin

#35. Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Laurens Van Der Post

#36. In programming, it's often the buts in the specification that kill you.

Boris Beizer

#37. Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case.

William Tecumseh Vernon

#38. The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you're going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you're meant to take.

A.J. Darkholme

#39. He lives alone, unexcited, disinterested, world-weary and ungiving, yet it is this dry-as-dust approach that makes him fascinating.

Morrissey

#40. The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet.

Sacha Baron Cohen

#41. All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.

Richard H. Davis

#42. Eating shitty is like a one-night stand. Instant gratification followed by a lot of questions.

Kunal Nayyar

#43. Every plan in which we participate has one constant, ourselves. Not that we are always the same, but that we are always part of the plan. All else comes and goes: friends, parents, possessions, conditions, situations, and associates, leaving only us, ourselves.

Wu Wei