TABLE OF CONTENTS But is was the opposite: my father had taught me. Looking at the bird he says, "Do you know what that bird is? It's a brown throated thrush; but in Portuguese it's a , in Italian a ," he says, "in Chinese it's a , in Japanese a ," et cetera. "Now," he says, "you know in all the languages you want to know what the name of that bird is and when you've finished with all that," he says, "you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You only know about humans in different places and what they call the bird. Now," he says, "let's look at the bird."
Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out , Cambridge, MA: Helix Books, Perseus Publishing, 1999, p. 3.
To learn something about the Standard, it is necessary to examine the Standard in detail. For example, the Standard mandates that the organization continually improve the QMS effectiveness. Activities that illustrate continual improvement can be obtained by means of such requirements as the quality policy, quality objectives, audit results, analysis of data, corrective and preventive action, and management review (Par. 8.5.1: Continual Improvement of the Standard).
This highly prescriptive language is not only remarkable for a generic Standard but it is backed up by even more prescriptive language in Par. 8.4: Analysis of Data. This mandates that we...
