Quality Degradation Quotes

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid.

Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

By planting more, we find new hybrid of cocoa, and by doing that, we lose some quality. So the price of the very high-end chocolates rises even more.

Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.