Quotes About Reliability

In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.

When you have kids, they are the consistent things in your life. They don't change no matter what's going on. They love you. They are more honest than anybody will be.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

I think that's what we love about the vodka, is that it's consistent. It's consistent in its pureness and that's how I tie it to restaurants.

It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father's funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There's a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity.

The body, with its various parts, needs to function like a well-rehearsed orchestra. Every system must play its role properly, and at exactly the right time, or noise and chaos ensue. It is for this reason that routine is so necessary. The acts of life we repeat every day need to be automatized. They must be turned into stable and reliable habits, so they lose their complexity and gain predictability and simplicity.

that is, the doubt that doubt itself is an ultimately reliable guide) objects: the worst decision of all is none.

It is for such reasons that trust is vital: but trust of the mature and tragic sort. A naive person trusts because he or she believes that people are essentially or even universally trustworthy. But any person who has truly lived has been—or has—betrayed.

Everywhere, the cynic despairs, are bad decisions. But someone who has transcended that cynicism (or more accurately, replaced it with an even more profound doubt—that is, the doubt that doubt itself is an ultimately reliable guide) objects: the worst decision of all is none.

if we now feel comfortable rejecting the conclusions of the Witztum study, what does that say about the reliability of our standard statistical tests?

When you're trying to draw reliable inferences from improbable events, wiggle room is the enemy.

Usually, when someone announces they're a "nonlinear thinker" they're about to apologize for losing something you lent them.

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

Sirk insanlar? beÅŸ para etmez. Onlara güvenemezsin. K?skanç insanlard?r.

El pulpero. A buena cuenta.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.