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Quotes About Reliability

In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. In
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.
~ Chuck Pfarrer
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
~ Cicero
A good theory doesn't change its mind: it doesn't apply only to some companies or people, and not to others. It is a general statement of what causes what, and why.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
products offering competitively superior shock resistance and mean time between failure (MTBF) were accorded a significant price premium, compared to competitive offerings.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The basis of product choice often evolves from functionality to reliability, then to convenience, and, ultimately, to price.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
One of the best ways to probe whether you can trust the advice that a theory is offering you is to look for anomalies—something that the theory cannot explain
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Once both technologies were good enough in the basic capabilities demanded, therefore, the basis of product choice in the market shifted to reliability.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
But history was something that you couldn't trust. It was put together wrong, or copied wrong, or misinterpreted, or improved upon by a man with a misplaced imagination. Truth was so hard to keep, myth and fable so easy to breathe into a life that was more acceptable than truth.
~ Clifford D. Simak
When friends say we'll see you again soon, keep in touch, it means you will never see them again. Friendship is like fire. You have to keep feeding it or the fire goes out.
~ Clifford Thurlow
You've always got me" "Always?" "Didn't I just say so?" "Yes" "Am I liar? " "No." I lied.
~ Clive Barker
No oil or water leaks. Don't push the Stutz too hard. We may have rebuilt the engine, but it's over sixty years old. And you can't buy spare Stutz parts at Pep Boys.
~ Clive Cussler
The only thing predictable about you is that you consistently appear when you suppose I least expect it. Perhaps that will be your undoing; for now I shall expect to see you every time I turn around.
~ Colleen Gleason
Hard work was a fundamental virtue, for hard work didn't allow time for marches or sit-ins. Elwood would not make a commotion of himself by messing with that movie-theater nonsense, she said. "You have made an agreement with Mr. Marconi to work in his store after school. If your boss can't depend on you, you won't be able to keep a job." Duty might protect him, as it had protected her.
~ Colson Whitehead
Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
~ Virginia Woolf
But the Daily Mail isn't to be trusted, Jacob said to himself, looking about for something else to read.
~ Virginia Woolf
Uvijek se možete pouzdati u ubojicu da ?e pisati kitnjastim stilom.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
That Voice in the Mist rang out in the dimmest passage of my mind. It was but the echo of some possible truth, a timely reminder: don't be too certain of learning the past from the lips of the present. Beware of the most honest broker. Remember that what you are told is really threefold: shaped by the teller, reshaped by the listener, concealed from both by the dead man of the tale.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
~ W.C. Fields
You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.
~ W.C. Fields
He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
~ Lao Tzu
From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are." Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all they'd been through. Maybe because of it. "I'll always have your back, Lucan. You can count on it.
~ Lara Adrian
You've had our back more than once. We've got yours now.
~ Lara Adrian
There were precious few people you could trust, so if you wanted to survive, you'd better always look out for Number One.
~ Lara Adrian