Part VI: QMS Design Rule Summary

Chapter List

Chapter 20: Issue Resolution

Chapter 21: QMS Documentation and Implementation Design Rules

Part Overview

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. There are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions and pass them on. It is our responsibility to leave the men of the future a free hand. In the impetuous youth of humanity, we can make grave errors that can stunt our growth for a long time. This we will do if we say we have the answers now, so young and ignorant; if we suppress all discussion, all criticism, saying, "This is it, boys, man is saved!" and thus doom man for a long time to the chains of authority, confined to the limits of our present imagination. It has been done so many times before.

—Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Cambridge, MA: Helix Books, Perseus Publishing, 1999.

All at once it became vividly clear to Adam. He turned to the sated Eve—she was surrounded by apple cores—and wiped the apple juice from his chin with the back of his naked hand and remarked, "You know my dear, we are living in a time of transition!"

—Anonymous.