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

Quality, Ability

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

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"I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality."

John Philip Sousa, American Musician

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"Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards."

Neil Kinnock, Spanish Politician

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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

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William James, American Philosopher

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"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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"The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity."

Hugh Shelton, American Soldier

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"Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us."

Arthur C. Nielsen, American Businessman

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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists."

Mark Millar, Scottish Writer

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"Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon."

Brevity

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

Mathematicians

"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

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

Success

"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."

Life

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

Change

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

Computer

"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague."

Humility

"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."

Experience

"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