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

— John Calvin

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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

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However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. ↗

— Wietse Venema

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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. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. ↗

— Herodotus

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

— Mason Cooley

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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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