Defects Quotes - Page 13

• I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Blessing, Used, Terrible

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• The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects.

  Steve McIntyre

  Past, Errors, Data

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• For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Zero, Knowledge, Fire

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• Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

  Jenni Rivera

  Thank You, Virtue, Accepting

  "NTSB confirms singer Jenni Rivera dead in Mexican plane crash", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2012.

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• If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Zero, Two, People

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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• These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

  Steve Jobs

  Children, Technology, Birth Defects

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• The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, People, Littles

  "Pope Francis Against Rome" by Alexander Stille, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2013.

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• I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

  Colin Firth

  Missing, Looks, Care

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• Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Educational, Birth Defects

  "Preventable Hunger in Our Land of Plenty" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

  Emile M. Cioran

  People, Seems

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

  Umberto Eco

  War, China

  "Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity'". Interview with Gianni Riotta - La Stampa, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

  Charles Babbage

  Eye, Effort, Mind

  Charles Babbage (1989). “Scientific and Miscellaneous Papers”

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• I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.

  Hugo Chavez

  Daughter, Dream, Sweet

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• The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Mirrors, Parent

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• A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.230

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• My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.

  Junot Diaz

  Character, Men, Way

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• [M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

  George Washington

  Wish, May, Constitution

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• To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government, as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.

  James Madison

  Mean, Government, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.238

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• Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they couldn't do a problem finally began to study why not. They then turned it around the other way and said, "But of course, this is what it is" and got an important result.

  Richard Hamming

  Change, Science, Important

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Able, Irony

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

  Shaun White

  Crazy, Heart, Mean

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• If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

  John Macmurray

  Love, Eye, Reality

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• I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, White Man, Personality

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• Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

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• No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

  Mitch Albom

  Where You Live, Matter, Humans

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.156, Broadway Books

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