Short Circuits Quotes

#1. The warmth and the soft glow of the tubes also attracted moths, which would fly through ENIAC's innards and cause short circuits. Ever since, the process of fixing computer problems has been known as debugging.

T.R. Reid

#2. Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency. Across the West, this was the most glorious boon of World War I.

Jonah Goldberg

#3. Something was wrong with the devices themselves. Digging deep into the internal structure of the circuit boards with powerful microscopes, Simon's team had discovered broken and incorrect connections, electronic dead-ends, short circuits, and nonsensical pathways.

A. Ashley Straker

#4. Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

Robert T. Bakker

#5. It's a basic rule of human nature that the promise of unexpected wealth short-circuits both intelligence and common sense.

Vikas Swarup

#6. The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

Brian Tracy

#7. The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

Ken Venturi

#8. The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. Kate short-circuits my brain. In my head we always have these clear coherent exchanges, but once we meet, what comes out it is, "Kate, do what I say or I'll kill you." Her default reply is, "Fuck you!" and we go downhill from there.

Ilona Andrews

#11. You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#12. Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on someone you don't like

Sixto Rodriguez

#13. In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#14. Don't believe everything you hear, okay? You're a smart girl. You can read between the lines.

Karen Thompson Walker

#15. It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt.

Hugh Hendry

#16. I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

Bear Grylls

#17. Anxiety, in short, is a conscious feeling. It can arise in a bottom-up way, driven by activity in defensive circuits or from higher processes that conceptualize worry, either about an uncertain future or about existence itself.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#18. I'm attracting small children," Orma muttered, twisting his hat in his hands. "Shoo it away, will you?

Rachel Hartman