“After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.” WorldTwoFactsHomeTodaySchoolFacesWaterCrimeBrokenDrugLuckyNewsTrainStrikesEveningComing HomeNaziAddictAbsorbingDrug AddictMuggersLucky DayPower Failure Author:Barbara Tuchman
“Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.” WantHardDoneHelpingAbleNightSecurityEventsSafeComputerStormExpectedDataDamageEmployeeCrashEquipmentSpyFilesBumpsElectricalDiskDisgruntledComputer SecurityDamage Is DonePower Failure Author:Bruce Schneier
“Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.” ReasonCasesDependsPerseveranceStayingPersevereDetermination PerseverancePerseverance And DeterminationStaying PowerPerseverance MotivationalPower Failure Author:J.R. Miller
“Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend's house during a power failure.” HouseSexTvsGirlfriendYour GirlfriendPower Failure Author:Bob Hope
“Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.” IfsNightSleepMissingWalkingAppreciateElectricityDeprivedDay And NightNoticingGratefulnessAnklesSleepless NightsDazePower Failure Author:David Steindl-Rast
“The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.” MaySeemsAgeSocietyCenturyDiseaseEnvironmentalTwentieth CenturyPowerlessnessPower Failure Author:Russell Baker
“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.” SometimesLightFailureLightingPower Failure Author:Douglas Coupland