He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year … - W. Edwards Deming

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The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

W. Edwards Deming

He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.

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