Quotes About Building Maintenance

#1. The 8 Snippets feed hungry hearts with love, learning and laughter.

T.R. Johnson

#2. The only truth I can write is that of the instant I am living.

Italo Calvino

#3. Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#4. She looked at them, at the three males who meant everything - more than everything. Then she smiled with every last shred of courage, of desperation, of hope for the glimmer of that glorious future. Let's go rattle the stars.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Jim Horning

#6. It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.

Steve Zahn

#7. (The coconut tree was a machine: a solar-powered, self-building factory that required no maintenance and cost no money - a clean-running, noiseless manufacturer of useful things. In went soil, air, and water; out came food, drink, fuel, building materials, rope, medicine, and, yes, pillows.)

Peter Rudiak-Gould

#8. Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

Ernie Banks

#9. The profits were staggering. In 1966, a Chicago landlord told a court that on a single property he had made $42,500 in rent but paid only $2,400 in maintenance. When accused of making excessive profits, the landlord simply replied, "That's why I bought the building.

Matthew Desmond

#10. To retire is to die.

Pablo Casals

#11. The Society for the Protection of Historical Buildings was the official body whose task it was to oversee repairs and maintenance to our beloved but battered listed building. We had them on speed-dial. They had us on their black list.

Jodi Taylor

#12. Because no one gets upset if you don't say anything. All almost-eight-year-olds know that.

Fredrik Backman

#13. It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

Dan Ariely