#reliability

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

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#reliability #simplicity

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 S. Geneen

#giving #important #paper #people #reliability

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#country #dear #democracy #democratic #democratic process

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

— Quintus Ennius

#inspirational #reliability #friendship

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

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#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

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we are not always available to music. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#music #reliability #inspirational