Quotes About Reliability

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions?

Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.

Qué es la confianza, sidhe-seer, sino la expectativa de que otro se comporte de un modo determinado, basada en acciones previas?

What good is it to be a superhero if you only are some of the time and you never get to know when?

Books were faithful and reliable. You could pack them up and put them in a box, run your hands over the spines, flip through their pages full of memories. They always came with you, wherever you went.

Apparently, a good friend helps you bury a body. A best friend brings their own shovel and doesn't ask questions.

Every truth that we may think complete will prove itself untruth at the moment of shipwreck.

Human nature is such that our happiness depends on reliable, secure, and predictable social relationships, and without them we feel lost.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

The most effective birth control I know is a toddler with the croup and diaper rash.

Mother is the one we count on for all the things that matter most of all.

When I say we do not

My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

To learn responsibility - each of us has to learn responsibility.

The need for reliability greatly influenced the design of the operating system. What was the best way to isolate applications, so that their failure would not bring down NT too? Cutler's answer was to split the operating system into two major pieces. One piece was the "kernel," which never interacted directly with applications and thus couldn't be contaminated by them. The other piece was the graphical, visible portion of the operating system. To

A kernel design had two main benefits. First, the kernel ensured reliability by allowing a user to keep other applications active or launch new ones even if one program accidentally halted. Second, the kernel made it possible for an operating system to display multiple personalities. Each operating-system personality called the kernel in order to issue commands to the computer.

In the 1950s Univac made the best computers for data processing, but by the late 1960s the company was in decline. DuPont asked Cutler to improve the reliability of its aging Univac, which meant fiddling with the machine's operating system. Until then Cutler had never even thought about operating systems. But the company's computer experts seemed not to know much either, and he jumped in. Computer

We cannot go into court with merely suspicions; we must get facts.

Oldu?unuz yerde gözü kapal? be? defa dönün ve bir ta? at?n, gözlerinizi tekrar açmadan önce o çak?lta??n?n hangi yana gitti?ini bilemezsiniz ama sonunda yere dü?ece?ini bilirsiniz. Kelimeler de böyledir. Ne pahas?na olursa olsun, sonunda bir yere konarlar ve önemli olan tek ?ey de budur.

Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure.

Showing up is what counts.

He had said it would be trouble if she came to his apartment, and still she had gone. If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.

Embeth looked at the return address. It was from her most faithful friend, Shipment Fulfillment Center.