Gijs de Vries Quotes

Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

I was one of the first Japanese to visit foreign lands and was able to do so only by stealth.

There shall be one measure of wine through our kingdom, and one measure of ale, and onemeasure of corn … and one breadth of dyed cloth and of rufflets …. It shall be the same as with weights as measures …

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

There must … be only one empire, one faith, and one sovereignty in the world.

For the vast majority of humans in history, people lived, traveled, worked and died within a few miles of their birthplace.

The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It's not gourmet food, but the french fries they order in Indianapolis are just like the french fries they order in Tampa. Wherever they get McDonald's fries, they know it will be the same. That's what McDonald's does.

A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car door is efficient - it opens and closes. So is a shot.

I have the same clothing everywhere I live.

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

You wish there was more consistency about how they do things in the NCAA.

I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

A good 60 per cent of my time I spend travelling, mostly to the U.S., Canada and Germany.

The Accenture culture is the same worldwide.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency.

We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.