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Defect-free software does not exist. -- Wietse Venema
Defect in one's limb ruins a man. -- Chanakya
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion. -- Thomas Hobbes
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Being positive may be a character defect of mine. -- Quentin Blake
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. -- Max Beerbohm
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. -- James Russell Lowell
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. -- John Calvin
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. -- Roberto Cavalli
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. -- Jonathan Swift
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. -- Lao Tzu
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. -- Lu Xun
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. -- Bertrand Russell
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. -- John Henry Newman
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. -- Saul Kripke
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. -- John Major
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. -- Max Beerbohm
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. -- Herman Melville
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. -- Thomas Fuller
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. -- C. S. Lewis
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. -- Thomas Aquinas
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. -- Chaz Bono
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. -- Steve Jobs
Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Talent is often a defect in character. -- Karl Kraus
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect. -- Karl Kraus
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect. -- Mason Cooley
Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other. -- Rumi
Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it. -- Mason Cooley
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. -- Edmund Burke
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. -- Laozi
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon. -- Robert Lowell
Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth. -- Susanna Centlivre
You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. -- Henry Becque
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. -- William Hazlitt
A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. -- Cyril Burt
He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny. -- Henny Youngman
I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog. -- Mindy Kaling
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -- Noam Chomsky
For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect. -- Marilyn Yalom
It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another. -- Robert Penn Warren
If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect -- Patrick White
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. -- Jane Austen
Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy ... -- Rebecca West
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason -- Charles Dickens
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. -- Horace Mann
I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213 -- Sylvia Day
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau
What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester? -- Jim Norton
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. -- Jonathan Swift
I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate. -- Mal Peet
If you don't know what the defect level is, how do you know when to get mad? -- Phil Crosby
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. -- Robert Henri
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. -- Fred Brooks
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being. -- Jacques Lacan
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. -- Isak Dinesen
I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect. -- Carrie Fisher
Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment. -- Narendra Modi
It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them. -- Jean Reno
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. -- Bertolt Brecht
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. -- Seth Godin
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them. -- Jane Austen
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems. -- Bertrand Russell
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. -- Tom Stoppard
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. -- Condoleezza Rice
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. -- Mitch Albom
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity. -- Ouida
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. -- Saul Kripke
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things. -- Julius Caesar
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision. -- Charles Babbage
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading. -- Charlotte Mason
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic. -- David Stove
The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons. -- Leonard L. Berry
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be. -- Ambrose Bierce
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. -- John Fowles
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect. -- Tennessee Williams
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. -- Werner Herzog
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver. -- Bertolt Brecht
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices. -- Sergei Prokofiev
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition. -- Anna Quindlen
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently. -- Werner Herzog
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public. -- James Madison
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. -- Max Beerbohm
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be. -- Thomas Sprat
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. -- Tony Robbins
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power. -- Matthew Arnold
...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine. -- Kathryn Stockett
Education has nothing whatever to do with moral deterioration; and if one must admit that it develops a resolute spirit among the people, that is far from being a defect. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess. -- Alexandre Dumas
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it. -- Mark Twain
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling. -- D. Elton Trueblood
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue. -- Suzanne Curchod
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.. -- Fred Brooks
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences. -- Bertrand Russell
Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty. -- C. S. Lewis
"?Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. -- Isabel Allende
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched. -- Samuel Johnson
In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations. -- John Daly
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero. -- Ayn Rand

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