Walter Shewhart Quotes & Sayings

Survey says: one more for the bad guys. — Scott Hall

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past. — Walter A. Shewhart

Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful. — Walter A. Shewhart

Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated. — Walter A. Shewhart

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature. — Walter A. Shewhart

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. — Orson Scott Card

I'm not cynical. — Laura Schlessinger

Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision. — Walter A. Shewhart

Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure. — Lynda Obst

The fans - the Echelon - send in their pictures and they've been wrapped around my kit, as a kind of a thank you. The Echelon's commitment, loyalty, creativity and ability to express who they really are, consistently inspires me. — Shannon Leto

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education ... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments. — John F. Kennedy

I really like iZotope Trash, which is a great plug-in for distortion, as is Ohmicide, which I love. It's an absolutely crazy multiband distortion, compression, EQ and filter, which pretty much lets you do anything. — Skrillex

Enter upon thy paths, O year!
Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread,
Which lead the Living to the Dead,
I enter; for it is my doom
To tread thy labyrinthine gloom;
To note who round me watch and wait;
To love a few; perhaps to hate;
And do all duties of my fate. — Bryan Procter

There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at. — Sidney Lumet

Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification. — Walter A. Shewhart

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. — Christopher Hitchens

I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff. — Maisie Williams