Quotes About Verification

Avi, with his genius for imagining the most horrific conceivable worst-case scenarios, demanded that they have their own machine, and that Randy and the others go through its kernel code one line at a time to verify that there were no security holes. In

Do whatever it takes to avoid fooling yourself into believing that something is true when it is false, or that something is false when it is true.

we ask the following questions before we listen to gossip: What is your reason for telling me this? Where did you get your information? Have you gone directly to the source? Have you personally checked out all the facts? Can I quote you if I check this out?2

I'd written my name on the blackboard, and under my name I wrote the name of the course for the would-be Sherlock Holmeses who needed more than the instructor's name and room number to be certain they were in the right place.

the rule is, If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.

I have a mug that actually verifies that I'm the world's best dad. That's a mug. That's not me talking. You can't just buy those.

I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

Like so many others of my tenure and temperament—stubborn ancients, I suppose—web reporting is anathema to everything I love about newspapering: getting a tip, developing leads, fleshing-out the details, then telling the story. Now it stops with the tip. Just verify (hopefully!) and post it. I didn't write stories anymore; I 'produced content.

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

How do we know you're not lying?" asked Orik.

I could have allowed myself more time. I have used my best efforts, with the aid of my eldest son, F. D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given.

Most ambassadors would be surprised to learn that some of the staff messages that are proposed to them for authorization to transmit were received from the ST almost verbatim in the form which his "staff " have given him to send back to Washington. This is a useful device for the ST because it gets a message of unquestioned authority from the ambassador into the Department of State and usually into Defense via attach channels.

99.99% of predictions have gone right so far about the stock market and it can be verified by old messages

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead." "No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead." "Have you checked? I could kick him if you want.

Cómo sabemos si es posible encontrar una solución óptima para un juego u otro problema bien definido? Un problema se considera «insoluble» si el único medio conocido para hallar la solución perfecta exige verificar un cierto número de pasos que aumenta exponencialmente con su magnitud.

There's a difference between suspecting a thing and finally knowing it for certain.

Virtually everything we told you about the healthcare bill now has proven to be true, and nearly everything they told you was a lie.

Don't take my word for it! I challenge you to do your own homework.

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.

WARNING: DON'T ACCEPT ANY NUMBER AT FACE VALUE. Numbers are not magical, and they aren't sacred.

It is reported, but impossible to verify, that no play was censored during Khubilai's reign.

Children should always be believed until proven otherwise.

In our zeal to become the landlords of our own being, we cling to each achievement as a kind of verification of our self-proclaimed reality. We become the center and God somehow recedes to an invisible fringe. Others become real to the extent they become significant others to the designs of our own ego. And in this process the ALL of God dies in us and the sterile nothingness of our desires becomes our God.