Quotes About Verification

I think people don't realise that running a piece of code that verifies some conditions for a financial transaction, that by itself is a lot less work than verifying a cryptographic signature, and so even if the virtual machine is inefficient, the cryptographic signature is still going to dominate.

hard evidence

I wish people were like money so I could hold them to the light to see which ones are real.

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

thought I might have to prove later that she was my kill and not somebody else's, so I grabbed two fourteen-inch white plastic ties from the truck and cinched them around her neck for ID.

Tenho, com frequência, uma estranha ilusão: julgo que me tomei surda. Cuido então de fazer um ruído para saber que não é verdade. Tenho de tossir, por exemplo, para verificar que ouço normalmente. É como a mocinha japonesa que encontraram nas ruínas de Hiroshima. Estava tudo morto, e ela cantava para a sua boneca.

Moreover, we have already seen that letters 7 and 8 were forgeries on the evidence of their contents.

And what exactly was it that had been "collated"? Had all eight Casket Letters been scrupulously checked

Nothing in science is as damning as the inability of an outside experimenter to reproduce results.

It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.

An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

The truth is nothing more than something that you can prove happened.

Yeah," Smalls said. "That's the guy.

Isn't that the way science works? You present a hypothesis to your peers, you show them all your measurements and observations and data, and you ask them to make you a liar.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Why is it that if someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe, you will believe them, but if they tell you that a wall has wet paint, you will have to touch it to be sure?

I've learned the hard way to only trust those who prove to you that they're capable of being trusted.

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.