#defect

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. ↗

— Wietse Venema

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ↗

— Voltaire

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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. ↗

— John Webster

#checks #defects #friend #great #his

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. ↗

— James Wolcott

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To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. ↗

— Lu Xun

#conclusion #defect #fault #suspicious #time

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#defects #existence #individuality #necessary

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#concealing #cunning #defects #discovering #other

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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