#liability

I shed a tear when I meet somebody who always quits. Reliable people are so rare in this world. ↗

My company has had a safety program for 150 years. The program was instituted as a result of a French law requiring an explosives manufacturer to live on the premises with his family. ↗

— Crawford Greenwalt

#industrial-plants #laws #liability #safety #family

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#answer #bloggers #body #busy #discourse

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

#collects #espionage #finished #finished product #gets

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#excellent #existing #good #good ideas #had

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability. ↗

— Liam Fox

#economic #economic policies #ever #government #incompetent

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#reliability #simplicity

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#condition #liability #longer #mother #pre-existing

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#friendship #reliability #trust #friendship

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend. ↗