Overloads Quotes

The Engineer smiled (internally, for of course it had no mouth). It was feeling good. It was feeling optimistic. Moving at its current speed, it would arrive back in Ireland in plenty of time to shut everything down before a series of overloads and power loops inevitably led to a sequence of events which would, in turn, eventually lead to the probable destruction of the world. The Engineer wasn't worried.
And then the truck hit it. ~ Derek Landy

I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is. ~ Darin Strauss

The influx of competing messages that we receive whenever we go online not only overloads our working memory; it makes it much harder for our frontal lobes to concentrate our attention on any one thing. The process of memory consolidation can't even get started. ~ Nicholas Carr

I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more. ~ Mother Teresa

The more we rehearse the worse we become. ~ Usman Ali

History is made by active, determined minorities, not by the majority, which seldom has a clear and consistent idea of what it really wants. ~ Theodore J. Kaczynski

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is. ~ Margaret Atwood

You're one of us! We are a team. It doesn't matter if you are living or undead, you will always be one of us ~ James Ponti

You can't control the weather, but that doesn't stop some people from trying. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

Every cloud has a silver lining. The edge of light that shines brightest holds a sliver of hope for a bright today & an even better tomorrow. ~ Truth Devour

When you reach your peak its time to die. ~ GG Allin

And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns ... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale ... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71 ~ Bob Dylan

I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods. ~ Andrea Jung