Steve Zissis Quotes

If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I'm like a trifecta.

Well, there are a lot of things outside our control - outside my control. And this is true with anybody's life: You try to keep the train on a certain track, and then there are a lot of moving parts that you can't control. And that tends to make you nervous.

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

There are things we can't control - like the wins and the losses.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Even if you have constrained resources, don't cut corners. People will feel it.

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

Everybody believes in chance.

It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.

And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.

The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing because I don't think it could have had nearly as much impact as it has. One of the key things that inspired people to put a lot into it (was the charity aspect).

It's easy to question yourself and ask if you're doing a good job, but there are so many different factors to landing a role. I remind myself that a lot of it is completely out of my control.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

That machines will surpass us in intelligence is inevitable. What it means is unknowable. Will they be sentient? What will they care about in the sense that determines our human motivations? All the theorizing by the experts and non-experts makes for interesting conversations and dramatic headlines, but it's more likely we will be surprised by how our technology develops and how it is used, as we so often are.

Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being