Defects Quotes
In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.
"Let's Talk Quality: 96 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Phil Crosby". Book by Philip B. Crosby, 1989.
Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
"Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 11, 1982.
Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.210
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.61, Baker Books
It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
"All the King's Men".
Philip Yancey (2009). “The Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide: Six Sessions on the Life of Christ”, p.23, Zondervan
Martin Luther, Johann Aurifaber, Anton Lauterbach, Henry Bell (1832). “Luther's Table Talk: Or, Some Choice Fragments from the Familiar Discourse of that Godly, Learned Man, and Famous Champion of God's Truth, Martin Luther”, p.232
Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.91, Faber & Faber
Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.475