Specification Quotes

“To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.”

“To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.”

“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.”

“There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband weighed him and settled him in her own mind and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.”

“On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.”

“More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked”

“Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble I go under. But if I let go and float I am borne aloft.”

“But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book of specifications or a last testament; our social personality is a creation of the minds of others.”

“Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.”