Quotes About Reliability

For example, in the airline business people talk about the 'olive factor' – if you forget to put the olive in the martini, the customer thinks you will forget to put the wheels down when you land the plane, and this is not regarded as a good idea.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Being strong is important. But knowing who you can count on is equally important

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Always a friend or a comrade may fail you, and be the first to desert you in a time of adversity; but never will a KOPECK fail you, whatever may be your plight.

We figured that if a promoter took the time to remove all the brown M&M's from the bowl before putting them in our dressing room, it was far less likely he'd screwed up any of the other, really important stuff. It

I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.

The difference is that bad engineers will soon be checked by the results of their poor judgments through the inoperability, unreliability, or high cost of what they create. (Physical reality is a stern taskmaster!) By contrast, bad doctors-such is the way of the world-can often rely on the gullibility, suggestibility, fear, and desperation of their clients to get themselves off the hook. And, of course, the old adage still holds as ever: doctors get to bury their mistakes.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

An alcoholic promising not to drink again is roughly like anyone promising never to fart again

Take it from me—he's got the goods.

Subtlety may deceive you; intedrity never will.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

e.g. the sky looks the same at midnight on the 1st of October as it does at 10 p.m. on the 1st of November.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Look, Son of Anarchy, I appreciate the nice guy offer, but how do I even know you're legit?

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.

The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply.