Quotes About Maintenance

One aspect that people sometimes forget to consider is access. Having roses close to the house or a part of the yard that you regularly pass will mean that you will enjoy your roses more and take better care of them. Ready access to water is especially critical to summer maintenance. Using Roses

Why are man hole covers around? If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

you must blackmail Julius. Come, come, don't make a fuss! Blackmail is a wholesome institution, necessary for the maintenance of morals.

But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti.

Most people assume that maintenance begins when an application is released, that maintenance means fixing bugs and enhancing features. We think these people are wrong.

Pragmatic Programmers won't sit idly by and watch their projects fall apart through neglect.

When we perform maintenance, we have to find and change the representations of things—those capsules of knowledge embedded in the application. The problem is that it's easy to duplicate knowledge in the specifications, processes, and programs that we develop, and when we do so, we invite a maintenance nightmare—one that starts well before the application ships.

Don't leave broken windows (bad designs, wrong decisions, or poor code) unrepaired.

Don't let entropy win.

As programmers, we collect, organize, maintain, and harness knowledge. We document knowledge in specifications, we make it come alive in running code, and we use it to provide the checks needed during testing.

As truly as God by His power once created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

You know I know next to zip about gardening, right? It's easy. You buy the pretty pots from the nursery, you stick them in the ground. If they die, you buy more. If not, you brag like there's no tomorrow.

Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it up. Two, five, ten, twenty years.

The mind is a theater. It cannot be allowed to go dark. It must be maintained.

He didn't just give you a pretty screen saver, ignoring all the viruses, porn and spyware on your hard drive. He wiped the whole hard drive out.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

Every creation is straightforward and easier than maintaining it.

No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless a real effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

People take in their car for servicing and checkups every few months without complaint. Why shouldn't they take similar care of their bodies?4

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

We have over 100,000 bridges in this country old enough to qualify for Medicare.

I have about two manicures a year, maybe three haircuts. I used to get blowdries all the time, and I never did my own hair. Now I'm last in the queue - the focus is on my home.