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No system of balance functions automatically.
[In any] machine, the failure of one part to cooperate properly with the other part disorganizes the whole and renders it inoperative for the purpose intended. - THOMAS EDISON R
When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.
The strange sense of being disassembled
importance. A control knob cracked into a tiny mess in his careful hand.
Some things stay a little bit broken forever - even after they've been fixed.
Everything on 'Sharknado' somehow, for some reason, something went wrong with everything. The days we had the water towers, they weren't working.
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
I played the wrong wrong notes.
function - thoughtless, careless, and liquorish,
Of the risks a man has got to take! Now the risk was inevitable, I no longer saw it in the same cheerful light. The fact is that, insensibly, the absolute strangeness of everything, the sickly jarring and swaying of the machine,
Everything fails, all the time.
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
Even boredom has its crises.
Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.
How did it die?" he asked.
"Short circuit," I said. "Old and frayed wires."
He looked at me like I was senile.
"Could have been disease. Violence. Or, sometimes, things die because we don't love them enough.
The alarm bells shriek again, echoing off the walls. "The hell is that?" asks Tattoo. "And why does it keep going off?" "There's some crazy lady on the loose," says Doc. "Keeps propping open emergency exits. Triggers the alarm. Are you going to let me go?" Well, at least my mom must be doing okay.
To maintain a fault known is a double fault.
If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?
A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often do.
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
The metal frame groans, and something under the hood lets out a mechanical hiss. Smoke billows up from the front, the universal symbol for you're screwed.
A noise came from the phone that resembled the sound of a howler monkey having an ice cube inserted into its rectum
A red ganglion, no bigger than a scarlet thread, snapped and quivered; a nerve, no greater than a red linen fiber twisted. Deep in her one little mech was gone and the entire machine, imbalanced, was about to steadily shake itself to bits.
The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire.
What would happen if one of those elements malfunctioned or just stopped working altogether?
...And anyone on whose screen I did manage to appear, generally proved to have a serious malfunction in their operating system, if not outright clinical issues. "Are you a good glitch or a bad glitch?" I had started wondering...
did not have enough substance to trigger the opening of a supermarket door
The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most important step in the course of my methods of observation. If I have obtained some new results it is to this that I owe it.
The fault was lying on its' back...
One bad thing can often be rectified or overlooked, but several of them can sometimes coalesce into a compound disaster that sprouts tentacles and develops a self-directed will of its own, the kind of thing my dear old dad used to call a cluster fudge bar.
The son of a bitch blew up my laptop.
There is a crack in everything
An existence transfigured by failure.
The gun went off accidentally.
Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.
Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?
Certain tight parentheses have been opened and allowed to spill their still active contents.
F. An F? She gulped air. An F! Failure. Failurino. Failurocity. Failtacular. Failpendous. Epic ... fail.
Sometimes a malfunctioning test setup actually gives the tested system a chance to show what it can do in an unrehearsed emergency. During a test of an Apollo escape system in the 1960s, the escape system successfully got the capsule clear of a malfunctioning test rocket.
A close with damage that can never be repaired.
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.
Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose!
did not recognize that any of the fault
An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
This is what it look like when it WORKS?Works-- Jim Butcher
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
The object that was pinning me haplessly to the ground, like a butterfly on a collector's tray, was of twentieth-century origin and of very specific function.
Oh, all right, it was a public lavatory.
...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.
When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.
Everything looks like a failure in the middle. Any
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Disaster' is an astrological term meaning 'bad star.
A fault is something very easy to find in others, but becomes invisible when you try to find it in yourself
Long ago I learned that even the most inanimate things we know of - stone, iron columns, copper pipes, gravel roads, a piece of paper - won't last very long without attention and fixing and the loan of additional order. Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance. What
The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.
Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.
But cruel fate had not finished with us yet. My colleague's gasps and grunts from the rear ceased for a moment to be replaced by a horrified shriek. The bloody thing's shitting, Jim! She's shitting everywhere!
Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.
Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold...
It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' - and flipped it.
I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin. "And what happened?" pressed Ford. "It committed suicide," said Marvin,
Miseries of a birth.
Never, ever say the dildo accidentally turned itself on.
Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
Certain objects that are supposed to (a) remain horizontal and (b) support heavy things have ceased to do either.
Our system is not fit for purpose. It's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes.
We really fucked up the engineering on this
Though his invention worked superbly [ ... ] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.
Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.
In a spectaculist fabrication, the cardinal rule is Shit Blows Up.
Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.
worry never fixed anything
Failure is my specialty.
Got it!" Mike announced. The GE record player slowly whirred to life, creaky as an old carousel.
"Nice," John said, raising a beer in salute. "What'd you do?"
"It wasn't on," Mike said.
The young detective possessed that peculiar ability more common to elderly men, which produces negative energy around electrical equipment, turning even the most basic appliances into weapons of destruction.
What cause then, to have me in hysterics of unknown kind?
Far-off the clandestine black where my road I cannot find,
What cause then, to submit me not here?
It happens as feature "Something"... always it happens... something just slow removes your control and makes you powerless....
discombobulated around
Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do ... Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose ... it's like your broken.
A broken thing can't fix itself.
A fault is sooner found than mended.
I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.
Your system was liable to periodical convulsions ... business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.
All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.
A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.
Failure is a trick of the light.
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.
What went wrong? Nothing and everything.Wrong-- Nick Hornby
There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!
Reason dies collapsing under its own load.
... Something isn't right with you and this property. Strange things happen around it. I don't know what is going on, but I will find out. You could make it easier on yourself by coming clean."
"Sure. This is a magic bed-and-breakfast and the two guys in my kitchen are aliens from outerspace.