"Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make."
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"Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being"
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"The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal."
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"Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect."
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"The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection."
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"A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination."
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"In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced."
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"It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings."
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"I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can."
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"The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite."
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"... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection."
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"Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man."
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"Nobody wants to watch perfection."
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"Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest."
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"Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere ... they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
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"Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?"
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"We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government."
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"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly."
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"There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen."
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"There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain."
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