Failure Mode Effects

Famous quotes containing the words failure, mode and/or effects:

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
—Donn Pearce, U.S. screenwriter, Frank R. Pierson, and Stuart Rosenberg. Captain (Strother Martin)

“The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“One of the effects of a safe and civilised life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)