Meeting Specifications Is Not Enough.

We Should Be Guided By Theory, Not By Numbers.

Inspection With The Aim Of Finding The Bad Ones And Throwing Them Out Is Too Late, Ineffective, And Costly. Quality Comes Not From Inspection But From Improvement Of The Process.

Scientific Data Are Not Taken For Museum Purposes; They Are Taken As A Basis For Doing Something. If Nothing Is To Be Done With The Data, Then There Is No Use In Collecting Any. The Ultimate Purpose Of Taking Data Is To Provide A Basis For Action Or A Recommendation For Action. The Step Intermediate Between The Collection Of Data And The Action Is Prediction.

It Is A Mistake To Assume That If Everybody Does His Job, It Will Be All Right. The Whole System May Be In Trouble.

Nothing Happens Without Personal Transformation.