Testing Quotes - Page 8

• I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy that would play my husband. At this time, I had been up for three days doing coke and was playing solitaire in my closet.

  Maureen McCormick

  Husband, Play, Rocks

  "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". TODAY interview, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.

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• I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.

  Rand Paul

  Running, Thinking, Arrogance

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• It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

  Billy Graham

  May, Tests, Way

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• God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Neighbor, Should

  George Macdonald (1870). “The Miracles of Our Lord”, p.17

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• The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

  Rumi

  Adversity, Order, Gold

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• In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.

  Wernher von Braun

  Dirty, Moon, Hands

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• I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

  Mike Myers

  Character, Ideas, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

  Carla Gugino

  Movie, People, Vision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Water, Office, Indifference

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• The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Temptation, Noble, Too Much

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• They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.

  Luol Deng

  Mad, Said, Concussions

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• Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

  Douglas Crockford

  Design, Training, Add

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• If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.

  George Wigram

  Christian, Over You, May

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• Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.

  William E. Burrows

  Believe, Technology, Agency

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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• Love testing yourself more than fearing loosing

  Ron Clarke

  Testing Yourself

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• If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.

  Kent Beck

  Cost, Tests, Ifs

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• Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.

  Fred Brooks

  Thinking, Order, Cds

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• I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once you give over to what reviewers think, that's tricky. You don't know what their agenda is; it's so subjective. You have got to make sure you are asking someone's opinion who you know.

  Bradley Cooper

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "In Conversation With Bradley Cooper". Interview with Askmen, me.askmen.com.

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• What a testing of character adversity is.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Character, Adversity

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2005). “The Manhood of the Master”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The end result is that addicts still get their opioids without much trouble, while genuine patients often can't find treatment. Those who do must typically be tracked in a database and must schedule frequent, expensive doctor visits for surveillance like urine testing.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Pain, War, Doctors

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• I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations

  Lana Wood

  Trying, Want, Insult

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• Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Gmos, Safety

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• The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA. So Monica Lewinsky is working for the CIA?

  Jay Leno

  Military, Dna, Able

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• Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Should Have, Numbers, Abbreviations

  Guy Kawasaki (1990). “The Macintosh Way”, HarperCollins

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• Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

  Isaac Asimov

  Absolute Truth, Absolutes, Mechanism

  "Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas" by Bill Moyers, May 1989.

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