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Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.

If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.

At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way--and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.

If simplicity were easy, we would see more of it.

Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

Simplicity is not the same as stupidity

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

In simplicity there is truth.

Simplicity is the key.

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

In the beginning was simplicity.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that.

It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.

If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are “true,” that they reveal a genuine feature of nature…. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.

It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know.

The simplicity we are looking for is not found in thought. It knows what you have to listen to in every moment and knows it can never make a mistake. It is the infinite working in the infinite. It projects into this world because we are here to do that.

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.

Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.

A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

In everything, love simplicity.

I recommend to you holy simplicity.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Pray God, keep us simple.

Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind

I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

From native simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

...The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation...

simplicity is the key of elegance

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.