Flawed Process Quotes

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.

Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

I think teams make the same decisions every year based on the same information and based on the same decision-making. I think a lot of it is flawed, but it's the way they draft.

The National Energy Board process was completely flawed. It didn't allow interveners to do cross-examination, and they said we could do paper questions.

When you have a tilted process, you will have a tilted outcome.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.