Goal Specification Quotes & Sayings

If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine. — Jim Barksdale

If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better. — Jim Highsmith

If someone had told her that she would be transported to what was for all purposes a magical land, where history could be rewritten at a whim, or people could suddenly be shrunk to the size of poppy seeds, but that at least for this moment, her most pressing concern would have been the absence of cigarettes, she would have thought them mad. — Tad Williams

He was learning a lot of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. — Paulo Coelho

I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative. — L. Brent Bozell Jr.

The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own ... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company. — Adam Smith

The person with the biggest dreams is more powerful than the person with all the answers. — Kai Greene

[A]s a species, we are very poor at programming. Our brains are built to understand other humans, not computers. We're terrible at forcing our minds into the precise modes of thought needed to interact with a computer, and we consistently make errors when we try. That's why computer science and programming degrees take such time and dedication to acquire: we are literally learning how to speak to an alien mind, of a kind that has not existed on Earth until very recently. — Stuart Armstrong

Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. — Oliver Joseph Lodge

My parents' biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn't fathom me acting for the rest of my life. — Mila Kunis

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them. — Henry A. Kissinger

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness. — Bob Marley