Unusable Quotes

#1. A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Leslie Lamport

#2. Aping the lower class will only lead to fatherless children, unusable muscles, and the fear of tomorrow's sobriety.

Bauvard

#3. The English have loudly and openly told the world that skis and dogs are unusable in these regions and that fur clothes are rubbish. We shall see - we shall see.

Roald Amundsen

#4. Madness is forever! We even smell different, our hearts don't beat, they tick, our eyes are different, we don't just see, we also pick up vibes. We are probably dehumanised and way past our 'sell by' date, totally unusable, bitter as lemons.

Stephen Richards

#5. My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance ... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.

Samuel Beckett

#6. Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. This may account for Americans' overuse of the courts as a means of finding coherence and stability. As other institutions become unusable as mechanisms for the control of wanton information, the courts stand as a final arbiter of truth. For how long, no one knows. I

Neil Postman

#8. There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.

Robert Cailliau

#9. As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Tristram Stuart

#10. All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago ... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.

Aaron Levie

#11. I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

Gladys Mitchell

#12. Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

Gary Wolf

#13. We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

Laura Dave

#14. No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

Albert Camus

#15. Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.

Paul Valery

#16. Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

Scott McNealy

#17. If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

Bart Stupak

#18. My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie

Megan McCafferty

#19. Tends to put us before the television and its one-way window

David Foster Wallace

#20. I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

John Hurt

#21. When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Ewan McGregor

#22. Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

John C. Maxwell

#23. In day-time we investigate, but at night believe.

James Slack

#24. If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

Phil Crosby

#25. As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

Robert Breault

#26. What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started. I was already living it! Those were the most important years, and I didn't even know it.

Lee Smith

#27. Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future.

Neville Goddard