Testing Quotes - Page 8

• About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

  Barry Boehm

  Downtime, Bugs, Programming

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• Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

  Tom DeMarco

  Quality, Bugs, Programming

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• There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

  Steven Levy

  Debugging, Bugs, Computer

  Steven Levy (2010). “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.332, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Good Friend, Thinking, Track

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• Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong with Serena Williams and we will find out as much as we can.

  Pam Shriver

  Drug, World, Speculation

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• Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test.

  Henry Giroux

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

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• But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Team, Writing, Size

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• Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Horror, Standardized Testing

  Alfie Kohn (2004). “What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies”, p.54, Beacon Press

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• We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we’re not going to do better.

  Dan Ariely

  Teacher, Strong, Motivation

  "Our buggy moral code". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

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• If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.

  Larry Walters

  Brother, Able, Hawks

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• I've been testing RealPlayer Cloud on all these devices… I think RealPlayer Cloud is well-designed and makes storing and sharing videos easy across different devices.

  Walt Mossberg

  Thinking, Clouds, Different

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• The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition, falsity, or misinformation. And there is no better system for determining the truth than free speech: Testing the validity of an idea in the waters of public discussion and debate.

  Dave Rodgers

  Truth, Ideas, Water

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• A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.

  Tom Landry

  Sports, Team, Character

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• Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

  Karl Barth

  Church, Doctrine, Proclamation

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• I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Want

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• A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with.

  Linus Torvalds

  Self Worth, Views, Numbers

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• Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Real, Two, Tools

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• The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.

  Jenny Shipley

  Progress, Nuclear, World

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• In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

  Valentino Rossi

  Mean, Race, Too Much

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

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• Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Simple, Infinite

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• We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

  Mitchell Baker

  Thinking, People, Community

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.

  John Engler

  Believe, Trying, Believe In Me

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• The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.

  Sterling Marlin

  Sports, Winning, Vegas

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• Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

  Valentino Rossi

  Sports, Race, Difficult

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

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• We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

  Bob Inglis

  Mean, Medicare, Bankruptcy

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