"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."

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

Boris Beizer

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“Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.”
“Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it.”

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“I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.”
“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.”

Source : 1970 Going Steady.
“While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.”

Source : Foreword to "Peak Performance: Business Lessons from the World's Top Sports Organizations" by Clive Gibson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts and Ed Weymes, 2000.
“There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today...”

Source : Song: Every Time You Say Goodbye, Album: Every Time You Say Goodbye, 1992
“The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.”
“I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.”

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