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.

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.

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

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

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.

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.

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

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.

I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.

There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn't have business interests there.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.

What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.

It is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present.

Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.

It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production.

We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.