Testing Quotes - Page 16

• [The tests agreed] that I was at higher risk than the average person for Type 2 diabetes, which is what my lab works on. In fact, some of the things they were testing for were variants that we had discovered.

  Francis Collins

  Average, Type 2 Diabetes, Risk

  Source: www.politico.com

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• He was smiling again, his face alight, and Ivy knew her own expression was a mirror to his. Ivoleyn, he said, softly now, as if testing the word. And she replied, Dashton. Then their hands parted, but only so they might come closer, like two trees twining together to stand as one in a forest of green.

  Galen Beckett

  Mirrors, Expression, Hands

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• How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

  Neal Shusterman

  War, Textbooks, Lasts

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Church, Trying, Devil

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.

  Tammara Webber

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.50, Tammara Webber

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• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivation, School, Yale

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

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• The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Use, Done, Research

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Mean, Doe, Lists

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

  Stephen King

  Business, Argument, Clear

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• The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

  Kathleen Norris

  Mean, Saying Yes, Cost

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• I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Mistake, Past, Doubt

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• Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

  Kent Beck

  Design, Listening, Different

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• Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Curriculum

  Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books

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• I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

  Martin Fowler

  Writing, Tests, Bugs

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• [Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'

  Gelindo Bordin

  Running, Pain, Race

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• Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

  Boris Beizer

  Bugs, Boundaries, Programming

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

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• HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.

  Roger Goodell

  Olympics, Tests, Happenings

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• If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

  Boris Beizer

  Rip, Tests, Bugs

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• I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

  Daniel Johns

  Animal, Talking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

  Boris Beizer

  Tests, Bugs, Programming

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

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• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Maintenance, Fundamentals

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• Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

  Peter Lynch

  Jobs, Investing, Elements

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, Educational, Ideas

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• Maybe [Iceland] could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented nation. Everybody is a gadget freak. We spend a lot of time indoors.

  Birgitta Jonsdottir

  Iceland, Gadgets, Freak

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Courage, Bravery, Heroic

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