Jim Butcher Quotes

I feel like a repair man behind a dyke. No sooner do I plug one leak, than another springs.

When somebody is describing their job as fixing problems for someone, that usually does not suggest that they're dealing with their tax returns.

Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

I fix things. Believe me, when you hear about tough phone calls I'm having, don't worry about it.

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.

We've got a rattlesnake by the tail, and the sooner we pound its damn head in the better.

It is one thing to diagnose a problem; it is another to resolve it.

Part of the genius of diplomacy is to resolve issues before crises come along.

I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

Problems are cured by facing their cause.

I'm kind of the crisis communications person at 'SNL.' If there are fires to put out, they try and find me.

If I'm ever concerned about something, I'll have security deal with it.

Whenever there is a need to address an issue that has emerged and the U.N. is expected to deal with, we should be ready to do so.

When things that normally work aren't working, you have to go to something else.

A good executive, when things aren't going well, gets down and finds out what's going wrong and tries to fix it.

Part of being a really good chef or cook is being able to fix disasters.

I think the thing is resolving problems rather than letting them fester.