Quotes about System Validation

Herbert Hoover

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Edsger Dijkstra

Testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

This principle is very important in all kinds of human activity. We design and test or pilot test products and programs of all kinds—governmental and not. The testing may uncover a flaw or problem, but the failure to find flaws or problems does NOT mean that they are not inherent in the program—they may well be there and have not been uncovered by the tests. Often when this occurs, we refer to them as “unintended consequences.”

John Justice

The system is not perfect. Reversals prove that the system works.

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Albert Einstein

The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.

Darren Remington

The analysis these [machine learning] systems are capable of performing are so vast and at levels of complication and scales so immense that human verification, by hand or thru traditional methods, is staggeringly difficult. With any ML system in which the answer is really important, a big challenge facing ML data scientists is finding a way to validate the results.

Faf de Klerk

As nines in our system, we need to make sure that we come off the line and that we have numbers correct on both sides.

Kris Kobach

Crosscheck is a really valuable tool.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

System Validation Quotes