“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Constant care from everyone, in matters great and small and always, is a necessary condition for the company’s success.”
— A.P. Møller Primary source“Well done is better than well said.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“I realised that both verification and testing were using the same technology—assertions—on a common goal of improving software products in their speed of delivery, their quality, and their reliability.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done for ever.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“There was never a good knife made of bad steel.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code, but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“Well done is twice done.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“I visit occasionally the Cambridge Library, and I can seldom go there without renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the four walls of my study at home.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. It is the most enduring quality and the most ascending quality.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”
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