Specification Quotes

#1. Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

Douglas Crockford

#2. Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.

Sara Sheridan

#3. Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

Emily Martin

#4. 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

#5. Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

Robin Morgan

#6. The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: [ ... ] I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.

Fred Brooks

#7. It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Alan Perlis

#8. The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Fred Brooks

#9. I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

Annabelle Selldorf

#10. Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.

Steven Magee

#11. He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs.

Lindsey Davis

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

Boris Beizer

#13. On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.

Larry Niven

#14. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

Edward Berard

#15. Green production is certainly an important topic for newspapers. Environmental considerations are part of every enquiry today and come into most aspects of equipment specification. On balance, however, cost-effectiveness is a more urgent requirement for most print organisations.

Eric Bell

#16. Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.

Ian Hickson

#17. If the discipline of requirements specification has taught us anything, it is that well-specified requirements are as formal as code and can act as executable tests of that code!

Robert C. Martin

#18. Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.

Sasa Stanisic

#19. She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity.

Ayn Rand

#20. I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

John F. Kennedy

#21. My courage was as thin as silk, but I held it around me like armor and urged myself up the stairs, dragging the remains of my dignity.

Jodi Meadows

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Wallace Stegner

#23. With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

Arlo Guthrie

#24. I recognize myself for part of this mad world, I suppose. You wouldn't have me take it seriously? I should lose my reason utterly if I did;

Rafael Sabatini

#25. The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

Paulo Freire