#defect

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#birth #body #brain #complicated #defect

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#chance #defect #fixing #fundamental #fundamental problem

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

— John Webster

#checks #defects #friend #great #his

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

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

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

— Victor Hugo

#defects #distance #qualities #range #sees

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

— William Hazlitt

#concealing #cunning #defects #discovering #other

Never judge a work of art by its defects. ↗

— Washington Allston

#defects #judge #never #work

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#gladstone #redeeming #single #william

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon. ↗

— Robert Lowell

#outgrow #soon #too #youth