Defects

Famous quotes containing the word defects:

    “We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A fool may be a dangerous customer, but the fact of his having such a vulnerable top-end turns danger into a first-rate sport; and whatever defects the old administration in Russia had, it must be conceded that it possessed one outstanding virtue—a lack of brains.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with all work that is not done by a machine—which is to say, its little bit of humanity.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)