Quotes About Reliability

People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.

I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.

It's not what you do some of the time that counts, it's what you do all of the time that counts.

Be on time because it shows you care.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

I love my fed-ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it...and he's always on time.

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

Every now and then we find a special friend, who never lets us down, who understands it all, reaches out each time you fall, you're the best friend that I've found.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

God is good all the time. Every time.

I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

Everytime I ask what time it is, I get a different answer.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.