Quality control starts and ends with training.

In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.

As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.

As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.

Failure is the seed of success

The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.

When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!

Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.

Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it.

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are . . . your simple presence can make others happy.

It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.

The more technology becomes complicated inside, the more it has to be simple outside.

I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.

Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.