Why fix what isnt broken quote

Relationships are like glasses. If they break, let them stay broken, you'll only hurt yourself trying to fix it. At least the pieces still remain. Relationship Advice quotes. Letting Go quotes. Broken dreams are like broken shells, in short we all see them, we step on them but we don't do anything to fix them.

So they're laying around and the currents just pick them up mixing them. Destroying any hope that we can have. Just tell me if you dont like me Dont risk being broken by someone who pretends to be all you want when in all honesty, they embody everything that you dont need. A broken heart does not mean a broken spirit, a broken mind or a broken vision. So, dont let the cracks in your heart overshadow the wholeness of the remainder of you.

Stay Strong quotes. Moving Forward quotes. Staying Strong quotes. Being Positive quotes. Your past might be messed up, but you can't stay broken forever. That may be misremembering which is commonplace in the dating of recently coined phrases or it may be that the phrase existed in common parlance but not in print. It would be surprising for a phrase to exist in the spoken language for the best part of 50 years before it appeared in print. The Internet has changed the way that new coinages spread and these days a datable record of a new phrase will be apparent within a day or two.

Even in the days of newsprint, 50 years is hard to swallow. Here is an barchart of the hits that a search for 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' finds in an very large archive of 20th century newspapers:. I could go on with dozens of examples of systems that weren't "broken" but were left in place, and the consequences that followed. But sometimes IT gets the cluetrain because the consequences of avoiding remediation of a problem are so dire that any inaction could risk a catastrophic business continuity loss.

If prolonged, such a loss or a data exposure could undermine your company's reputation and result in loss of customer confidence or even cause you to be fined heavily by the government.

Not to mention other damages by the downtime alone. The last time the industry hopped on the cluetrain was the Year problem.

Windows XP's End of Life has been compared to the Y2K event because of the cavalier attitude many end-users as well as businesses have about it. Just yesterday, a follower of mine on Twitter remarked that Y2K was "overblown. I take great offense to that, because I and countless IT professionals worked full time for several years in the remediation of software and systems in anticipation of that event.

Compared to Windows XP, however, the consequences to IT business continuity of avoiding remediation was well-understood. Had the date field correction not been made, transactions on many systems on the morning of January 1, would have reverted to January 1, The results would have been catastrophic for infrastructure, banking, and any system that was transaction-oriented or date-dependent.

All of us who were working in IT support during the evening of December 31, stayed up all night with our pagers on, ready to run into work on a moment's notice.

Many of us were even told to stay at work and forgo the usual New Years Eve festivities. On the morning of January 1, , nothing happened. Very few systems around the world were affected. The reason why nothing for the most part happened is not because the Y2K bug was overblown, but it was because IT was proactive and it did its job. Word Lists. Choose your language. My word lists. Tell us about this example sentence:. The word in the example sentence does not match the entry word.

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