Inspection Quotes

• Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

  Tacitus

  Haste, Delay, Truth Is

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• A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

  Arthur Bloch

  Failure, Finals, Units

  Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

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• Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Quality, Improvement, Process

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 29, 1982.

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• Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Quality, Too Late, Improvement

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• We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Years, Quality, Dodge

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 139, 1982.

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• It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Firsts, Different, Levels

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• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Eye, Garden

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.

  Nils Heribert-Nilsson

  Ideas, Evolution, Inherent

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• We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.

  Marc Garneau

  Space, Safety, Roles

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• But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

  Jack Vance

  Jobs, Has Beens

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• I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!

  Sophia Bush

  Shoes, People, Handbags

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• The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Cat, Government, Games

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• A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Travel, Missing, Pieces

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.42

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• The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

  Karl Kraus

  Mirrors, Looks, World

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• In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.

  Jim Gerlach

  Iran, Iraq, United States

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• We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Distance, Character

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

  Hans Blix

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.

  Jim Gerlach

  Iraq, Leader, United States

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• The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Keys, Government, Iraq

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• It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

  Xander Berkeley

  Behaviour, Hours, Minutiae

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• On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

  Cecil Beaton

  Mixing, Principles, Gum

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• Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Borders, Target, Information

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• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Technology, Iraq

  "Where Bush got his marching orders" by Jack Ammann, www.cnet.com. October 16, 2004.

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• These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

  Steve Finley

  Sight, Law, Safety

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• Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Errors, Discovery, Genius

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1951). “Precepts and counsels on scientific investigation: stimulants of the spirit”

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