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That's my job - to make sure everything is great.
Beggars approached the task of trying to persuade perfect strangers to bear the burden of their maintenance with that optimistic vim which makes all the difference. It was one of those happy mornings.
I don't have a lot of downtime.
The majority of the cost of a software project is in long-term maintenance.
Motorcycle maintenance gets frustrating. Angering. Infuriating. That's what makes it interesting.
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
Lights are off when they should be on. Right Now
Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car.
It's the nuts and bolts time of the year and we don't have enough nuts and bolts.
Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.
I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.
I just want things to work properly.
the machines slowly rebuilding with recent history, having been wiped completely during the uprising. Access
The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.
Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
I'm falling into disrepair
Trouble Springs From Idleness.
I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.
If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
Automatic simply means that you can?t repair it yourself.
I'm tired of fixing things that always break.
I was in the oil business for a while
gas and oil, check the tires.
Failure results from bad breaks.
Every system of control depends for its survival on the tangible and intangible benefits that are provided to those who are responsible for the system's maintenance and administration.
We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks.
I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.
No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.
(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
All part of the service.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
the car's problems when
Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.
To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts.
I build engines and attach wheels to them.
Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
something happen to The Fixer?" "Yeah, but wait.
Hire new field systems maintainer" was near the top of my to-do list, right under "uncover massive political conspiracy," "avenge Buffy's death," and "don't die.
When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.
It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.
Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement
Down time is not the name of the game.
The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.
For a machine to run smoothly and predictably,
its parts must be standard and hence replaceable,
features which contribute, respectively,
to modern depersonalization and anxiety.
When something gets broken, it can be fixed.
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.
Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the ongoing expansion of the station as well as in the deployment of solar panels.
Fix
If it ain't broke, fix it ~
because anything in this world
can be improved.
heavy demolition unit.
Can you connect me with my mechanic?" "Sir, this is an emergency line. You need to go through the operator." "Listen, I don't have a quarter, and my taxes pay your wages. You're a public service. So connect me right now.
What we're trying to do is get things fixed, not allow them to stay broke.
Oh, I wish I could tell you I was a Mr. Fix-It, but I am not that kind of guy. I get frustrated so easily.
We have a specific approach to computer support here. It's all very time sensitive and report driven. We want what we need when we need it but couldn't care less how that happens.
It's better to prepare than to repair.
As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.
This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.
A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.
Cause I'm on set, make it work, break even on 9 to 5's. Cigarettes and lotto tickets, tryna keep that grind alive
About to be hanged is my status quo, not a condition that requires your repair.
When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.
For decades, [Toyota] used the practice of asking why five times in succession as a means of getting to the root of a particular manufacturing problem.
We have the Fine Guidance Sensors, one of which we will exchange out of three. Another one we changed on the last servicing mission, and on the fourth servicing mission in 2003 or 2004, the third one will be exchanged.
Relax, Recreate and Refresh!
Someone broke into my car last night. Nothing worth taking, car is actually less of a mess now. I should schedule this monthly.
up on time every day, something I hadn't
If something breaks when you're out crossing oceans, your choices are to fix it, replace it, or do without it.
I'm a firm believer in down time.
Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.
Whatever's broke, he says, I can fix it. I'll fix it all. I promise.
Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.
Solutions sometimes present themselves after a reset.
COMMIT. PURGE. REPLENISH.
Some things stay a little bit broken forever - even after they've been fixed.
Whenever we turn on our computer, we are plunged into an ecosystem of interruption technologies,
But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.
The more you have, the more you have that needs fixing.
What get's scheduled gets done.
There are some mechanisms that are so - so broken that they cannot be repaired.
Or maybe they had always been breaking down but we didn't notice until someone stopped fixing them.
Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.
Wait - something's gumming up Bosch. (Computers aren't as powerful as most people think; running even a small and rather stupid intern can really bog down a server.)
Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.
Become a fixer, not just a fixture.
I've heard enough about what you want to do; now tell me what needs doing
With destruction comes renovation.
Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.
I'm just a repair guy who can throw the occasional fireball.
The human body is like a condominium. The thing that keeps you from really enjoying it is the maintenance.
Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.
Inspecting? What do you mean? I don't understand. I'm collecting insects. My specialty is sand and insects.
What?
Collecting insects. Insects. Insects.I catch them like this!
Insects?
One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.
For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the blue.
My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.
I look for what needs to be done
If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
Not everything needs to be fixed
When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something that needs to be done, do it. In that way, you will take care of your world and repair creation.