quotes about Reliability
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An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
-- Aldrich Ames -
If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.
-- Anders Hejlsberg -
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
-- Arthur BlochSource : Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult
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Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
-- Arthur Nielsen -
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Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.
-- Boris BeizerSource : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
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Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.
-- Carroll Smith -
Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.
-- Charlie Campbell -
The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.
-- David Filo -
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As the technology matures, it becomes less and less relevant. The technology is taken for granted. Now, new customers enter the marketplace, customers who are not captivated by technology, but who instead want reliability, convenience, no fuss or bother, and low cost.
-- Donald A. Norman -
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
-- Frank Herbert -
... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now liabilities in a disk only strategy.
-- George Arthur Crump -
People are increasingly using the Internet for easy price comparisons. Also, the reliability of delivery of a product bought over the Internet has increased.
-- Gian Fulgoni -
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As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.
-- Hans Christian von BaeyerSource : "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.
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There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.
-- Marc Benioff -
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect for the Bible increased by the experience of excavation in Palestine. Archaeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics.
-- Millar Burrows -
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We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
-- Richard Burr -
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion
-- Richard P. Feynman -
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.
-- Seamus Heaney -
The Evidence Bible is a handy tool for anyone interested in proving the reliability of Scripture, the deity of Jesus Christ, and the incredible offer of our eternal salvation. It makes the defense of Scripture easily understood and should be read by all serious Bible students.
-- Tim LaHaye -
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The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.
-- Tony Hoare -
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
-- Vannevar BushSource : Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”
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Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.
-- Ernest SosaSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency, this fact about our evolutionary origin is of no use at all in addressing questions about reliability.
-- Hilary Kornblith -
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I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not legitimate. As I see it, the case for the reliability or unreliability of various cognitive mechanisms lies elsewhere.
-- Hilary Kornblith -
Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.
-- Nancy Leveson -
On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect for the Bible increased by the experience of excavation in Palestine. Archaeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics.
-- Millar Burrows -
Reliability is the precondition for trust.
-- Wolfgang Schauble -