Quotes About Reliability

He didn't just know there would be personal computers. He knew they would crash, that the people who came to fix them would charge heavily by the hour, and be annoying, and no good, and in the end would just tell you to buy a new and more expensive machine –

C'è soltanto una cosa di cui puoi essere sicuro. Quelli che oggi vendono sapone, domani puzzano. Le industrie non sono enti benefici.

She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. He could find food, and show her how to reach Oxford, and those were powers that were useful, but he might still have been untrustworthy or cowardly. A murderer was a worthy companion. She felt as safe with him as she'd done with Iorek Byrnison the armoured bear.

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?

Nothing keeps its promise.

In the ass is how you create loyalty.

You may be on Facebook lots — but would you trust Facebook with your money? For most people, the answer was "no.

Even in the middle of a crisis, he had to be accurate.

Fig. 8.1. The Trust Equation Fig. 8.2. Trust Realms The

Four Essential Elements That Engender Trust (Chapter 8) 1. Credibility 2. Reliability 3. Intimacy 4.

Don't tell lies, or even exaggerate. At all. Ever. 3.

The trick of earning trust is to avoid all tricks.

Less formally, we consider the time it takes someone to return a phone call, whether meetings are canceled or kept, and whether to-do lists are completed. Reliability

Google: the selective use of polygraphs

Developing an increased level of trust with other teams can enable the harder things.

Predictability builds and holds trust, a core Agile value, better than does delivering more with less reliability.

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

The truth isn't laughable And the trust isn't funny at all.

he was solid. he was there as i dissolved.

i thought i was going to be early, but of course by the time i get near where we're supposed to meet, i'm later than a pregnant girl's period.

his train could've gotten stuck in a tunnel or something. it's not unheard of. he's coming from ohio after all. people in ohio are late all the time.