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Quotes About Malfunction

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking – and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works.
~ Steven Johnson
but damaged machinery will continue to malfunction if its problems are neither diagnosed nor fixed.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
damaged machinery will continue to malfunction if its problems are neither diagnosed nor fixed.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
The printer is broken again! Nothing prints!
~ Josh Golin
He wonders if this is a lack within himself. Is there a part of the brain from which love comes that in his case has drastically malfunctioned? The world is awash in love—on the radio, in movies, in the pages of novels. Romantic love is the common cultural narrative, yet he seems immune to it. Thus, though he has yet to taste the pain that comes with love, he has experienced pain of a different, related sort: the fear of facing a life without it.
~ Justin Cronin
I am sorry if anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance at the Super Bowl. It was not intentional and is regrettable.
~ Justin Timberlake
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
~ John Perry Barlow
Consciousness is simply the brain's neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.
~ Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Really cool people?" said Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping.
~ Terry Pratchett
Larry Wells, at Brigham Young University, hit upon the idea of delivering the birds by air. In what has to be one of the most spectacularly woozy malfunctions ever to happen in the skies above the American Southwest, he found to his horror that when you toss Rhode Island Reds out of a small plane, well, let's just say the windblast hammers them in the most awful way, leaving lifeless chicken bodies scattered about the sagebrush.
~ Gary Ferguson
It's one of the most stable ignition elements for plasma weapons, for a start. They say a plasma gun made with Kragmeer ansidium has only a forty-five per cent malfunction rate.
~ Gav Thorpe
Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it's the same with brains - some malfunction, and some, you can't hack into them at all.
~ Keith Barry
The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
~ Charles Stross
Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger.
~ Charles Stross
Bogons?" "Hypothetical particles of cluelessness. Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting the machinery work again. Hacker folklore
~ Charles Stross
Los idiotas emiten bogones que hacen que las máquinas se estropeen en su presencia. Los administradores de sistema absorben los bogones, lo que permite que las máquinas vuelvan a funcionar.
~ Charles Stross
Bogons?" "Hypothetical particles of cluelessness. Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting the machinery work again.
~ Charles Stross
I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong.
~ Carla Bruni
But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.
~ J.R. Ward
DRAM circuits were carved into silicon. They didn't need to be weaved by hand, so they malfunctioned
~ Chris Miller
I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.
~ Laurel Clark
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
~ Russell Baker
Unfortunately, most warning systems do not warn us that they can no longer warn us.)
~ Charles Perrow