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Quotes About Glitches

His imprecision and laziness maddened my compulsive instincts—his patchiness, the way even his speech was riddled with drop-outs and glitches like a worn cassette, the way his leaden senses refused the world
~ Jonathan Lethem
Rather, he found himself enchanted with examples of simple human error, mundane malfunctions and mechanical glitches. The sheer variety of things that could and did go wrong in the world never failed to surprise and strangely comfort him.
~ Wendy Brenner
The nation was cracking under the weight of bloated modernity and all the patches pasted onto its excessive and malfunctioning hypercomplexity, and people were bewildered by the strange glitches, failures and shortages. Going forward, nothing would really work anymore as it was designed to, yet the hope and expectation that it would all magically recover dominated the chatter in the rare moments when people could step back from their frantic lives and share a meal or a drink.
~ James Howard Kunstler
Residual biosystems glitches, they said, and told me it'd fade with time. I believed them, because in the end almost everything does.
~ Richard K. Morgan
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
After almost half a billion dollars spent on the computer registration system for Obamacare, the website coughed, sputtered, and appeared to descend into an immediate coma as millions tried to log on. One reason is that the Obama administration never fully tested it.
~ Jonathan Turley
Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.
~ Rosamund Pike
My bugs don't have bugs.
~ Eoin Colfer
2012 the Pentagon said it wanted to buy fewer F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes than had been planned—the single-engine fighter has been plagued by cost overruns and technical glitches—but the contractors and their friends on Capitol Hill vowed to fight the decision.
~ Robert B. Reich
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.
~ Jerry Saltz
There are programs that don't work.
~ Sam Graves
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.
~ Jerry Saltz
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
~ Grace Hopper
We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.
~ Laurel Clark
My programs don't have bugs... they have random features.
~ Sean Keogh
Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.
~ Vint Cerf
one reason Theranos got into trouble was that it used a Silicon Valley model commonly applied to software, which can afford to have initial glitches and failures, for medical testing, which cannot.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
Everything on 'Sharknado' somehow, for some reason, something went wrong with everything. The days we had the water towers, they weren't working.
~ Cassie Scerbo
Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.
~ Laurel Clark
He's got basically the same height and frame as the President," Christian explained, "so we use him for the trial tan, just to make sure there's no temperature issues or electrical glitches." The Knob glanced over at Angie. "Thirteen minutes on my back," he said with a salacious hitch of an eyebrow. "Easy money, babe.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.
~ Kathy Najimy
the more complex the regulation, the more bureaucratic the network, the more a regulator who knows the loops and glitches would benefit from it later
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially.
~ Neal Adams