Reliability Quotes

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

Reliability is the precondition for trust.

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.

A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

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

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.

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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.

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

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

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

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

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

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

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

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.

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

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

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.

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.

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

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.

Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.

Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.

People are increasingly using the Internet for easy price comparisons. Also, the reliability of delivery of a product bought over the Internet has increased.

... 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.

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.

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.