Kent Beck Quotes

The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

The public always picks quality.

Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency.

During my tenure with Nintendo, we've pushed back development a number of times on key games - in the end, it's always worth it - because our focus on quality is so strong.

It's impossible to have zero defects.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

Contractors always pursue large profit, the customer - a high-quality end product in due time and at a lower cost. This struggle never ends, but this is natural.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

Deliver total quality to every customer every day.

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.

No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.

If I keep striving to put on the best quality show based on the values I have, I don't have to think "oh we're crossing the line" because the line is built in. We follow that and do the best quality work we can.

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.