Criteria Quotes

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science, could become a dogma, can be explained only on sociological grounds.

G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.

Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.