Testing Quotes - Page 17

• Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes close is the male South Pacific Groping Beetle, which sometimes, just before mating, will slap on a little Aqua Velva. But we think this resulted from atomic testing.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Aqua, Males

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• ... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

  Brian Kernighan

  Principles, Fundamentals, Answers

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• ... the results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces.

  Scott Meyers

  Mean, Blow, Important

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• I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

  Sean Penn

  Country, Comfort, Testing Yourself

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.

  Katherine Paterson

  Teacher, Book, Reading

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real.

  Amanda Hocking

  Real, Firsts, Lips

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.508, Pan Macmillan

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• It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.

  Douglas Crockford

  Strong, Errors, Worry

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• Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

  Harvey Cushing

  Educational, Individualism, Defeat

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• Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

  T. S. Eliot

  Creative, Toil, Sifting

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• We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

  Harold Ramis

  Laughing, Theater, Audience

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Interview with Bill Moyers on October 21, 1988. "Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas". Book by Bill D. Moyers, 1989.

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• I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

  Tim Ferriss

  Real, People, Fields

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• So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.

  Kendrick Lamar

  World, Next, Like You

  Song: Faith

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• The perception of beauty is a moral test.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beauty, Perception

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.120, Princeton University Press

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• I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Education, Teacher, Believe

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

  Dan Coats

  Character, Self, Years

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• Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  1974 Zen and theArt of MotorcycleMaintenance, pt.3, ch.24.

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• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

  Rumi

  Courage, Discipline, Gold

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it.

  Mack Brown

  Football, Player, College

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• Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, Healing, Buddhism

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Testing oneself is best when done alone.

  Jimmy Carter

  Done, Well Wishes, Oneself

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• The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

  Evander Holyfield

  Stories, Trials, Way

  "'Mama's whippings meant I didn't wind up like Tyson'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2008.

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• Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

  Mike Johanns

  People, Today, Process

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Motivational, Sports, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 17, 2015

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• Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Teacher, Children, Book

  "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

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