Quotes About Verification

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

Do you really think he untied you? .. He was just checking his kids handiwork.

Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof.

If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

you should wire him correct information

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

The stress on observation and the reality principle—you can believe what you see, so long as you see what I see—paid off beyond understanding.

For routines you call, rely only on documented behavior. If you can't, for whatever reason, then document your assumption well.

Never, ever, ever, act on assumptions. Search out the facts and act on those.

As the philosopher Baroness Onora O'Neill has said, 'If we are to place or refuse trust we need either unmediated evidence of others

As the philosopher Baroness Onora O'Neill has said, 'If we are to place or refuse trust we need either unmediated evidence of others' honesty, competence or reliability or mediated evidence that can be checked.

The Internet's abundant capacity has removed the old artificial constraints on publishing—including getting our content checked and verified. The new strategy of publishing everything we find out thus results in an immense cloud of data, free of theory, published before verified, and available to anyone with an Internet connection. And this is changing the role that facts have played as the foundation of knowledge.

If somebody comes on TV and says everything is great and wonderful, you don't believe it, you say they're blowing smoke up your butt. You demand proof. But if one second later, some guy comes on and says everything is falling apart, you automatically believe it, no questions asked.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn't much time left over for emotion recollected in tranquillity.

No, a proof is a proof...

The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.

Ce qui la marqua le plus intensément fut le plaisir un peu ironique que l'on éprouve lorsqu'une prévision se vérifie, qu'un calcul tombe juste, qu'une intuition se trouve confirmée par les faits.

A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of producing proof require additional expenditures. No money, no proof - and that means no verification of statements and no truth. The games of scientific language become the games of the rich, in which whoever is the wealthiest has the best chance of being right. An equation between wealth, efficiency, and truth is thus established.

most developers don't test at all! They key in a few values at random and click a few buttons. If they don't get any unhandled exceptions, that code is ready for QA!

Sheriff: There's nothing about her on Facebook, either. If she's not on Facebook, I have to wonder if people are just making her up, if she even exists Seth: I'm not on Facebook Sheriff: I rest my case