But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.
As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.
Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on The Daily Show, because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice of God to the reason and understanding of man, concerning things deeply affecting his relations to his sovereign, and essential to the formation of his character and of course to his destiny, both for this life and for the life.
Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.
For me surfing is just something that I love to do. I grew up surfing, is sort of like a family requirement. I can't imagine my life without it. But I am not defined by it, nor is my music. They are very separate.
The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.
There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
In those days, the main requirement to be on the Food Network was being able to get there by subway.
Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other. . . Fairness treats everbody the same.
The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.
Finally it may be said that the temple endowment is not secret. All who meet the requirements for entrance to the temple may enjoy it.