Q

Quality

There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. The search which we make for this quality, in our own lives, is the central search of any person, and the crux of any individual person's story. It is the search for those moments and situations when we are most alive.

- Christopher Alexander

Down the road there's a music store, and that music store would be delighted to sell you the score for a 140-piece orchestra--Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Listen to the London Symphony Orchestra play it. So wonderful. Now listen to my home town orchestra play it. Just listen to the difference. The London Symphony ... the hometown orchestra. Same music; same specifications. Not a mistake. Both perfect. But listen to the difference. Just listen to the difference.

- Dr Edwards Deming

The best is the cheapest.

- Benjamin Franklin

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.

- John Ruskin