Top 36 Specifications For Quotes
#1. 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
#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. 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
#6. Don't worry that other people don't know you;
worry that you don't know other people.
Confucius
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.
Bryant McGill
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
Vernon Howard
#15. 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
#16. To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.
Phil Crosby
#20. Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
Henry James
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#25. 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
#26. Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
Raymond Carver
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.
Anne Parillaud
#30. In programming, it's often the buts in the specification that kill you.
Boris Beizer
#31. Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done
Warren Spector
#32. 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
#33. I love my body. And if I didn't, I'd get on the Stair Master
Jaime Pressly
#34. Kind of like getting married." I smiled at him. "It's easy to say I do, but ten times harder to say I don't.
Denise Grover Swank
#35. 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
#36. The job has not been done to Admiral Hyman Rickover's specifications. He admonished, "Nature is not as forgiving as Christ.
Bernd Heinrich
