Testing Quotes - Page 11

• If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but it would also be theoretically impossible.

  Boris Beizer

  Bugs, Impossible, Program

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• What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Travel, Old Habits

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Book, Hands

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• Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Attitude, Writing

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Taken, Should

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.87

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of others, the processes of thinking are impregnated with ressentiment. The establishment of "criteria" for testing the correctness of opinions then becomes the most important task. Genuine and fruitful criticism judges all opinions with reference to the object itself. Ressentiment criticism, on the contrary, accepts no "object" that has not stood the test of criticism

  Max Scheler

  Thinking, Judging, Criticism

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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• Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.

  Tom Peters

  Support, Improvement, Pursuit

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• Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

  Robert Breault

  Goes On, Tire, Propositions

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• To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

  Rashad Evans

  Fighting, Testing Yourself, Becoming

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• Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.

  Richard G. Scott

  Strong, Character, Choices

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• One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Space, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

  Kent Beck

  Responsibility, Programming, Slacker

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• Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Bugs, Absence, Programming

  "Software Engineering Techniques". Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee in Rome, Italy, edited by J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, October 27-31, 1969.

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• You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And so we expect that the big enterprise people will just do that and we will certainly be providing binaries that have been through full industrial-strength QA, that have been through all the conformance testing.

  James Gosling

  People, Use, World

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• I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

  David Eagleman

  Faith, Ideas, Way

  "Infinite Sum Of Possibilianism", www.wired.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Hands, Giving, Desire

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• Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Agriculture, Tree, Littles

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• The test of any man lies in action.

  Pindar

  Lying, Men, Tests

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.

  Wernher von Braun

  Dirty, Moon, Hands

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• My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Sports, Kids, Heart

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• Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

  John William Draper

  Science, Thieves, Kepler

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Only thing I am testing positive for is Pasta or Cheese.

  Joe Lauzon

  Cheese, Pasta

  Twitter post from

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• The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Medicine, Perfect, Degrees

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• God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.

  W. T. Purkiser

  Differences, Doe, Way

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