#reliable

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ↗

— Evan Esar

#definition #facts #figures #producing #reliable

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#around #because #chips #computer #harvest

Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#built #ever #got #head #i

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#i #i tried #slippery #tell #these

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#battle #body #her #love #though

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#material #offers #only #owner #profitable

... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but only should have, and that others had not the shades and flavors—for example, of jealousy or antiquity or shame—that I have later unconsciously chosen to give them... ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#memories #memory #unreliable-narrator #faith

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#embodies #father #find #good #hard

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.' ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#bent #bunch #country #democrats #especially

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#audience #because #between #chemistry #often