Quotes About Maintenance

Would you like some help with your duct work, sir?" Dahl asked. "Please," Kerensky said. *

A single line of code in the Xi'an habitat's maintenance programming kept the cathedral from ever suddenly going oxygen-free—but that line of code had been recently expunged in a system update. For three months, then, nothing had kept human inefficiency from suddenly asphyxiating Archbishop Korbijn and hundreds of celebrants during morning services.

The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.

The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live

I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care...

Not to mention the medicine! I take nine pills every day, each for something different—blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, tranquilizer. Need I go on? I look completely normal, but I take nine pills a day for that.

She runs her tongue over her teeth as she walks out the door, and feels an edge, something needing to be filed down before she bites her tongue. Dentist. Manicure. Makeup. Hair salon. She tastes blood, swallows it, pops a mint into her mouth. Small repairs. There's no woman alive who hasn't found the occasional hole in heaven, and carefully, meticulously, covered it back up.

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.

This shirt is "dry-clean only"... Which means it's dirty.

Yeah. Some people just don't understand when their facial hair starts to look ridiculous.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.

If it moves, starch it. If it doesn't move, starch it. If it seems it has enough starch already, it hasn't, so starch it again.

The Buddha resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain. — Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The problem here is a very general one: anytime you copy code with cut and paste, you essentially double your maintenance effort in the future.