Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.
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In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.
The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.