Stepwise Refinement Quotes

#1. Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

Niklaus Wirth

#2. During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

Niklaus Wirth

#3. God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.

Empedocles

#4. I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#5. Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses.

Michael J. Rosen

#6. I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.

Olaf Stapledon

#7. Why is the fact that each of us comes from a culture with its own distinctive mix of strengths and weaknesses, tendencies and predispositions, so difficult to acknowledge? Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from - and when we ignore that fact, planes crash.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. I will sing while you croak.

Henry Miller

#9. Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

Eric Bolling

#10. It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

Charles Kettering

#11. You've just mentioned the price that has to be paid ... Pride, freedom ... Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don't you think? And don't you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#12. Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I'm like inside.

Sharon Tate