Reliability Quotes

• A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.

  Confucius

  Men, Useless

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• Your personal brand is a promise to your clients... a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability.

  Jason Hartman

  Consistency, Promise, Quality

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• Reliability is the precondition for trust.

  Wolfgang Schauble

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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

  Availability, Effort, Lines

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• Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

  Frank Herbert

  Action, Agree

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.110, Penguin

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• Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not planning to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception.

  Susan Ward

  Educational, Keys, Good Relationship

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• (Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

  Garrett Hardin

  Technology, Humans

  Garrett James Hardin (1985). “Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent”, Penguin Group USA

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• Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.55, Ballantine Books

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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

  Trying, Wasting Time, Faster

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• Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

  Harold Geneen

  People, Giving, Important

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• Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Trust, Knowing, People In Your Life

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.307, MIRA

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• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity

  "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.virginia.edu. June 18, 1975.

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• Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.

  Laozi

  Lying, Generous Spirit, Giving

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• The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

  Tony Hoare

  Simplicity, Programming, Computer Science

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• The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Tests, Fortune

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• Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

  Arthur Bloch

  Work, Errors, Done

  Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

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• Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Knowing, Faithfulness, Competence

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

  Richard P. Feynman

  Experts, Opinion, Skepticism

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• The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

  Tony Hoare

  Simplicity, May, Pay

  "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Tony Hoare's lecture at the 1980 ACM Turing Award in Nashville, Tennessee; "Communications of the ACM", Volume 24, Issue 2, dl.acm.org. February 1981.

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• Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.

  Nancy Leveson

  Safety, Special, Assuming

  Nancy Leveson (1995). “SafeWare: System Safety and Computers”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

  Garrett Hardin

  Attitude, Technology, People

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• A great brand is a promise, a compact with a customer about quality, reliability, innovation, and even community. And while the concept of brand is intangible, brand equity is far from it.

  Stephen B. Shepard

  Community, Innovation, Promise

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• When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

  Dave Eggers

  Cities, People, Twenties

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• I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Destiny

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.12, Broadway Books

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