Troubleshooting Quotes

“When you keep hitting walls of resistance in life, the universe is trying to tell you that you are going the wrong way. It's like driving a bumper car at an amusement park. Each time you slam into another car or the edge of the track, you are forced to change direction.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Acceptance of a problem will not only make you stronger to get over it but also make your troubles disappear.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Therapies administered included but were not limited to: turning things off, then on again; picking them up a couple of inches and then dropping them; turning off nonessential appliances in this and other rooms; removing lids and wiggling circuit boards; extracting small contaminants, such as insects and their egg cases, with nonconducting chopsticks; cable-wiggling; incense-burning; putting folded-up pieces of paper beneath table legs; drinking tea and sulking; invoking unseen powers; sending runners to other rooms, buildings, or precincts with exquisitely calligraphed notes and waiting for them to come back carrying spare parts in dusty, yellowed cardboard boxes; and a similarly diverse suite of troubleshooting techniques in the realm of software.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

“If we were going to determine what was broken in the radios, we needed a power source. With no electricity, this meant batteries. [...] we'd walk to the trading center and look for used cells that had been tossed in the waste bins. [...]

First we'd test the battery to see if any juice was left in it. We'd attach two wires to the positive and negative ends and connect them to a torch bulb. The brighter the bulb, the stronger the battery. Next we'd flatten the Shake Shake carton and roll it into a tube, then stack the batteries inside, making sure the positives and negatives faced in the same direction. Then we'd run wires from each end of the stack to the positive and negative heads inside the radio, where the batteries normally go. Together, this stack of dead batteries usually contained enough juice to power a radio.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“Nitko vam to neće reći, no ako imate ikakav problem, nemojte otići k onima koji kažu da imaju odgovor, već se približite onima za koje znate da nisu u mogućnosti riješiti vlastite teškoće.”
― Stanka Gjurić, Istina o sreći

“U rješavanju problema umnogome ima utjecaja trenutak u kojem se nešto događa, ne samo način na koji se zbiva.”
― Stanka Gjurić, Istina o sreći

“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) in Hawaii, it was at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona at the much lower altitude of 6,875 feet. Due to my very high altitude experiences, I knew that this strange sickness was not primarily caused by altitude sickness and was most likely Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). After reporting various behavioral problems in all of the staff to the management team, my contract was not renewed, I was unable to legally protect the health and safety of the workers that I was responsible for, troubleshooting of this environmental problem stopped and I left in a sickened state for my next position before I could find the root cause.”
― Steven Magee

“A career spent troubleshooting broken systems is also very useful for troubleshooting failing health.”
― Steven Magee

“I left Florida with greatly enhanced troubleshooting skills!”
― Steven Magee

“After discovering the DeSoto Solar Farm had been on fire, troubleshooting revealed exploding fuses, many blown fuses and loose electrical connections.”
― Steven Magee

“I had been hired to manage the Desoto Solar Farm due to my expertise in troubleshooting solar photovoltaic farms. When my expertise uncovered it was incorrectly built and was dangerous, I became a pariah in the company.”
― Steven Magee

“The day I was unexpectedly terminated from the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm, there was a large amount of failures on site that I was in the process of troubleshooting.”
― Steven Magee

“What I have learned from IT is that whatever works. Never works, especially when you want it to work.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos