#reliability

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

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

#current #current state #flip #granted #grid

The problem with quotes on the internet is you never know if they are genuine. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#humor #lies #quotations #reliability #truth

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#reliability #simplicity

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#reliability #friendship

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. ↗

— Idries Shah

#reliability #friendship

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way. ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#cohabitation #commitment #marriage #maturity #reliability