Testing Quotes

• As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Testing Yourself, Defeat

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Testing Yourself, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

  James Dyson

  Engineering, Ideas, Together

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  Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  1983 Worst ward Ho.

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• More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

  Boris Beizer

  Design, Tests, Bugs

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• Testing a product is a learning process

  Brian Marick

  Process, Products, Learning Process

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• Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

  Tom DeMarco

  Quality, Pay, Testers

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.22, Addison-Wesley

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• If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Math, People

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• Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

  George E. P. Box

  Important, Unexpected, Testers

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• Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

  Brian Kernighan

  Inspirational, Funny, Smart

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  I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Positive, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 12, 2011

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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Quality, Experts, Debugging

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• Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.

  James Marcus Bach

  Bugs, Invisible, Process

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• A fool with a tool is still a fool.

  Grady Booch

  Tools, Fool, Stills

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• Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Bugs, Absence, Program

  "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.

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• When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wanted, Ifs

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• Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

  Simon Cowell

  Auditions, Audience, Fronts

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• Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

  Donald Knuth

  Funny Inspirational, Bugs, Computer

  Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977

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• Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Hard Work, Technology, Debugging

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• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  C. S. Lewis

  Courage, Army, Bravery

  In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31

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• The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it.

  Gene Spafford

  Nerves, Safe, Bunkers

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• Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

  Boris Beizer

  Perfect, Missing, Quality

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

  Tom DeMarco

  Law, Firsts, Management

  Tom DeMarco (2001). “Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency”, p.95, Crown Business

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