“My heart was defective. It was defecting a little more each day.” — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do… — William Carey Copy Share Image
That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began… — Anne Finger Copy Share Image
The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
[In Mexico] they have a VAT tax. We're on a different system. When we sell into Mexico, there's a tax. When they… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself.… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The federal government has more power to recall a defective stuffed animal who's little glass eye may fall off than to recall… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking. — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresistible magical power but… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image