#liability

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#development #either #even #improvement #itself

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. ↗

— Richard E. Byrd

#hero #liability #motion #out #progress

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#change #condition #liability #like #longer

Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty] ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#inspirational #reliability #friendship

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. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#attacked #because #century #critics #documents

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

— Bauvard

#humor #quitting #reliability #funny

Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes: Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#error #falliability #kings #equality

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