#unexpected

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. ↗

— Steven Levy

#computers #debugging #history #never #period

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#actually #atomic #choice #devices #distort

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected. ↗

— James Purefoy

#big fan #fan #i #like #patterns

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing. ↗

— Ken Hill

#good #good things #mistakes #thing #things

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#i #looking #never #seen #things

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#duties #feel #i #i feel #incompetent

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#business #expect #expect the unexpected #news #news business

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#could #day #due #encounter #entirely

A brick could be used to enhance your sex life. So what are you waiting for? Get that gerbil out of your pants
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny