"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."

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"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."

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"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."

William James, American Philosopher

Quality,

"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Quality, Film

"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."

Henry Mayhew, English Journalist

Quality, Living

"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."

Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian Composer

Quality, Remembrance

"I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too."

Paul Kane, English Writer

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"Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa."

Thomas Vilsack, American Politician

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"And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring."

Hugh Grant, English Actor

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"Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts."

J. D. Hayworth, American Politician

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"When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Do not compromise on the quality and your customers will not negotiate on the price."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."

Mathematicians

"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."

Mistake

"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."

Success

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

Hope

"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."

Change

"The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing."

Being

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

Computer

"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."

Idea

"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection."

Excellence

"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."

Feelings