Quality Assessment Quotes

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

Food is like music. You've got two kinds, good and bad.

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

But I don't write a full capsule review of anything I haven't heard five times. It's usually closer to ten.

I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played.

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

Priyanka and Red One made a great record that we think will stand on its own. People won't buy the music just because she is who she is. We want them to buy it because it's good.

We don't tell a 17-year-old kid that Nike sucks, because the fact of the matter is, Nike doesn't suck. They're actually very good at what they do.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

Good music is good music.

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

I feel like, as far as streetwear goes, man, Play Cloths sits at a top-tier of quality, and your idea of luxury should not stop where you feel like you're at the obvious.

My liking for a team isn't based on just how good it was, but how good was it in relation to how good it should have been.

'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

I'm really bad at knowing if something I've done is any good. I can't work it out; I can't be objective about anything I do.

I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.

A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.