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Quotes About Reliability

When there are few choices, McDonald's appears to be a safe bet.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A workhorse, not a show horse
~ Neal Gabler
And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you're likely to break.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain, Kele had said. I mean, you don't know where it's been.
~ Neal Shusterman
His friends were fair-weather at best. Cohorts of convenience.
~ Neal Shusterman
Tell them whatever you like. It doesn't matter, as long as you're there tomorrow morning.
~ Neal Shusterman
Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
~ Charles Bukowski
t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.
~ Charles Bukowski
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
~ Charles Bukowski
I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?' 'Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.
~ Charles Bukowski
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
~ Charles Bukowski
He stood there as I walked on. Never trust a man with a perfectly-trimmed mustache …
~ Charles Bukowski
We live in an age when we are no longer surprised that people let us down the only surprise is that we are so constantly willing to allow ourselves to be deceived.
~ Charles Bukowski
Roy had communicated, days earlier, to the Zen master that I was a drunk - unreliable - either faint-hearted or vicious - therefore during the cerimony, don't ask Bukowski for the rings because Bukowski might not be there. or he might loose the rings, or vomit, or loose Bukowski
~ Charles Bukowski
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
~ Charles Bukowski
the people will always betray you. never trust the people.
~ Charles Bukowski
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took. On
~ Charles Bukowski
I've always said if you want to find out who your friends are go to a madhouse or jail.
~ Charles Bukowski
La humanidad tiene múltiples debilidades, pero dos de las más importantes son: la incapacidad de llegar a tiempo y la ineptitud a la hora de cumplir promesas.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you managed to fool a man, it doesn't mean he's a fool, it means you were trusted more than you deserve.
~ Charles Bukowski
Livermore scientists still insist that they have good reason to trust the computer's more recent predictions. They claim to have experiments that back up the computer code, but it is impossible to tell, from the outside, whether they are telling the truth.
~ Charles Seife
Bureaucracies excel at performing tasks that must be done consistently whether the people assigned to them are brilliant performers or bumbling fools. You can't always count on having Albert Einstein in the patent office, so you design its procedures to work even if you hire Mr. Bean by mistake.
~ Charles Stross
History is written by the survivors, a narrative they compose to explain events to themselves. So the historicity of journals like this one—their accuracy and authenticity—is a function of the reliability of the narrator
~ Charles Stross