Testing Quotes

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

No trusting without testing

Trust but verify. Doveryai no proveryai.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

I have to keep testing myself.

And now when our maimed soldiers have returned from the Civil War and apply for Federal office, the duties of which they are perfectly competent to discharge, they will be rejected to give places to those who were cramming themselves with facts and principles from the books, while they were bleeding for their country, because they do not know the fluctuations of the tide at the Cape of Good Hope, how near the moon ever approaches the earth, or the names of the principal rivers emptying into the Caspian Sea.

Just build things and find out if they work.

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

You can’t really understand the challenges involved with any major tech project until you start trying to build it.

Failure is awesome. Failure means you tried something, you tested it, and you learned some things. Failure gives you the tools to move forward.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.

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

The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?

I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested!

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

From the early days, Booking.com has been disruptive. Our aim is to create the best product for our customers, and we do that through constant innovation and testing.