Requirements Quotes - Page 21

• Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.

  Barry Boehm

  Team, Negotiation, Wells

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• There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.

  Michael Jackson

  Machines, World, Defining

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• Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

  David Parnas

  Use, Language, Easier

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• Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

  Nancy Leveson

  Software, Flawed, Accidents

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• Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed. .

  Nancy Leveson

  Might, Behavior, Program

  Nancy Leveson (2011). “Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety”, p.49, MIT Press

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• But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.

  Fred Brooks

  Knowing, Arguing, Norm

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• Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

  Fred Brooks

  Design Work, Design

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• We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

  Kevin Drum

  People, Effort, Benefits

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• The Human Values should be regarded as basic requirements for every human being. In spreading the message of these values to the world, you should all cooperate with each other and act in harmony.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Messages, World, Harmony

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• Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

  Alexei Navalny

  Russia, Uzbekistan, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.

  Hillary Clinton

  Email, Wells, Materials

  "Clinton on email controversy: 'would have been better' to use two accounts" by Jon Swaine, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2015.

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• The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.

  Gregory Kane

  Impact, Law, Criminals

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• Building Code changes to mid-rise wood construction will give builders and the public even safer, more flexible building options. Our made-in-Ontario model for mid-rise wood provides the highest requirements for fire safety in Canada.

  Ted McMeekin

  Fire, Safety, Giving

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• The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

  Mark Twain

  Fiction, Reason Why, Stranger

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• The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Successful, Dancing

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• I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

  Luc Sante

  Emotion, Behavior, Source

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and trajectory; an ability to execute the details on the page from largest to smallest; technical command, and hopefully a connection with the overall expressive impulse (though the latter is not at all necessary to give a good performance).

  Michael Hersch

  Strong, Giving, Understanding

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change have yielded chaotic markets, fierce competition, and unpredictable staff requirements.

  Bruce Tulgan

  Technology, Profound, Competition

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• Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

  Kingsley Amis

  Attitude, Love You, Ignorance

  Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics

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• Do you realize this? That if you were to somehow purpose to, from this day on, perfectly please God and succeed in doing it, that that perfect obedience, from this moment, would not acquire in the remainder of your life, enough merit to atone for one past sin, because God exacts and God demands perfect obedience and there's no merit for giving him the minimal requirement.

  Paris Reidhead

  Past, Giving, Perfect

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• Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Pirate, May, Constitution

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is a bastardization of the Constitution's requirement that copyright be for "limited times."

  Lawrence Lessig

  Years, Limited Time, Constitution

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Distance, Emotional, Effort

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• You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy and successful on earth, you just have to have people that you rely on.

  Michael Schur

  Successful, Support Systems, People

  "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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• As a matter of fact, although we had some terrible challenges and temptations when I was in office, we never dropped a bomb... we never launched a missile... and we never fired a bullet. I think that one of the main requirements for a strong military, like a strong submarine force, is to prevent war, not to cause war.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Military, War

  "President Jimmy Carter ‘NIV Lessons from Life Bible’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 22, 2012.

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