Defects Quotations

Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

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

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

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.

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

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

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

Seventy percent of birth defects could be prevented, treated or ameliorated if the recommendations in this report are adopted.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

I was always able to see the defects in the design of an instrument which overlooked completely the need of its maintenance.

Humility is not my forte, and 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.

The purpose of this report is to reveal the harsh and hidden effects of birth defects worldwide.

The purpose of this testing is to cause defects to occur during testing before placing a cable back in service. It forces weak cables to fail during testing.

Our tank is absolutely pristine. There was no indication of any kind of defects on this tank.

It causes an increased risk of birth defects and mental retardation.

I think it is an act of medical malpractice to do human reproductive cloning when animal data shows how risky it is -- how high the frequency is of miscarriage, birth defects and even life problems with other species. We've been unsuccessful at doing this in our closest animal relatives.

Understanding how to better develop software that is free from security defects is fundamental. Only by collaboration between top thinkers representing all stakeholders can we solve this problem. The Secure Software Forum is a tremendous step towards that solution and ISSA is excited to be supporting these efforts.

Week by week the government has had to change their case on ID cards as more and more defects are revealed.

We estimate in the report that if the recommendations that we give were implemented, up to 70 percent of mortality and disability from birth defects could be prevented, treated, or ameliorated.

The fact that PFOA can cross the placenta from the mother to child is very troubling, given the fact that this is a chemical that is broadly toxic and linked to birth defects in lab animals.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

Yeah, I'm concerned. . . . You start thinking in terms of (muscular) defects going on. Right now this is a minor injury and we don't want to make anything more of it. But this is now the third occurrence in that area and that's the part concerning everybody right now. We don't know whether this is minor or we have something bigger.

The PCB will decide whether to file the appeal or not but frankly speaking I am very disheartened because I have tried hard to remove any defects in my action and I have still not been cleared completely.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self-love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognize our qualities

This report demonstrates the importance of state birth defects surveillance programs and also the need for more research to identify the causes of many birth defects.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.

What is offered to GOD is totally free from all defects and imperfections.

At that point, instability in the processes being used required the dedication of vast amounts of time and money to inspection. We wanted complete stability and reliability in our operations. To achieve that, we began shopping for software that would identify any defects in our manufacturing processes.

You get the pretty images due to the light hitting the defects in the materials.

The results that we have discovered mark a great first step in automatically assessing the quality and security of any given code base. However, our goal is not only to measure quality and security, but to make the projects that we analyze better. By opening up our analysis results to the core developers of these open source projects, we hope to work with them to reduce the number of defects and vulnerabilities in their code bases.

Once an area of weakness is pinpointed, hackers tend to dig at it. As more eyes turn to that area, more defects are found.

You think you're getting the best of the best. What you're getting is oftentimes a very sick animal with genetic defects who came from a puppy mill.

Evolutionarily, germ cells are one of the most ancient cell types, needed by every type of animal to reproduce. Their developmental program is very similar, whether we are talking fruit flies or humans. As a result, these findings could eventually help us understand and treat defects in germ cell development that lead to human infertility and disease.

Cleaning of defects is a critical and necessary step in generating a zero-defect mask blank, because defects in the substrate become defects in the multilayer, which ruins the mask blank.

By not funding the Birth Defects Network, we're more than likely going to increase the amount of money we're going to have to spend in Early Intervention or Medicaid dollars.

The impact of lean initiative has been our operating margins have improved ... and defects have gone down.

The growing strength of AMD puts Dell in a favorable bargaining position with Intel, in our view. Even if Dell does not move to adopt AMD, it is likely to continue to use them as a leverage point to gain further concessions from Intel. Intel seems likely to lose revenue and/or margin, either because Dell defects or because it is forced to offer incremental concessions to Dell to maintain their loyalty.

The images that have been given about human cloning are images of fading copies or armies of clones or defects of animals. That's all we have shown the public.

The first nutrient is folic acid. This reduces the risk of the baby having neural tube effects. That is basically birth defects on the brain or the spinal cord. You can get 100 percent of you daily value of folic acid by having a cup of fortified cereal.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

Man is a robot with defects.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

It's likely that they're dealing with two very similar attacks and two distinct code flaws. That wouldn't be all that surprising, because code that has one major bug will often suffer from some similar defects elsewhere.

they didn't suffer from any diseases or any genetic defects that would account for their stunted growth.

They must have the defects of their qualities.

It is very important that each person knows what they are supposed to be doing, their personal tasks, ... Defects are assigned to people in a specific order for completion. The dashboard and flowcharts allow management to see our progress in real time and communicate progress to our senior management.

We have a better understanding of the genetic defects associated with Huntington's disease than we do of other neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's. Establishing this nonhuman primate model for Huntington's disease is critical to providing a foundation for studying the genetic causes of other neurodegenerative diseases.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the miserable physique and the national defects of concave chests and bow legs. The lack of 'complexion' and of hair upon the face makes it nearly impossible to judge of the ages of men.

All authors to their own defects are blind.

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

If you don't know what the defect level is, how do you know when to get mad?

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

Talent is often a defect in character.

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

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

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.