Testing Quotes

• As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Testing Yourself, Defeat

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Testing Yourself, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

  Boris Beizer

  Design, Tests, Bugs

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

  Tom DeMarco

  Quality, Pay, Testers

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.22, Addison-Wesley

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  Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  1983 Worst ward Ho.

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• Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

  Brian Kernighan

  Inspirational, Funny, Smart

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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Quality, Experts, Debugging

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• Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

  George E. P. Box

  Important, Unexpected, Testers

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  I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Life has a way of testing our anchors and tempting us to drift. Nevertheless, if our anchors are correctly placed in the rock of our Redeemer, they will hold—no matter the force of the wind, the strength of the tide, or the height of the waves.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Rocks, Anchors, Wind

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• Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity, Temptation, Trying

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• Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

  Donald Knuth

  Funny Inspirational, Bugs, Computer

  Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977

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• A fool with a tool is still a fool.

  Grady Booch

  Tools, Fool, Stills

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• I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Requirements, Computer

  Usenet article "s///e bizarreness", groups.google.com. January 4, 1991.

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• Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

  Boris Beizer

  Perfect, Missing, Quality

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it.

  Gene Spafford

  Nerves, Safe, Bunkers

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• First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

  Tom DeMarco

  Law, Firsts, Management

  Tom DeMarco (2001). “Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency”, p.95, Crown Business

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• To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

  Romain Rolland

  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”

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• Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Order, Challenges

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• Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Hard Work, Technology, Debugging

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• Testing a product is a learning process

  Brian Marick

  Process, Products, Learning Process

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• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  C. S. Lewis

  Courage, Army, Bravery

  In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31

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• I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

  Peter Kay

  Thinking, Animal, Ideas

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• Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

  Kesha

  Animal, Realizing, Unnecessary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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