By making the time tradeoff explicit and by indicating a willingness to contribute time now, I make it clear that it is a problem of limited time, no… - Gerald M. Weinberg

Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.

"Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong. Testing does not improve a product; the improving is done by people fixing the bugs that testing has uncovered. Often when managers say, "Testing takes too long," what they should be saying is, "Fixing the bugs in the product takes too long" — a different cost category."

"There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so."