Quotes About Reliability

Besides, how could I trust them, when I couldn't even trust myself?

An equal-opportunity phenomenon, the World Wide Web doesn't discriminate between sober-minded scholars and delusional crackpots, leaving visitors without a reliable filter to determine what's trustworthy and what's not.

They only throw clean ones

in real-life situations we often make the opposite error: we assume that a sample or a series of trials is representative of the underlying situation when it is actually far too small to be reliable.

wine might be rated 91, but that number is meaningless if we have no estimate of the variation that would occur if the identical wine were rated again and again or by someone else.

I did not find one that depicts a parent as consistently reliable and trustworthy.

Man discourseth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds.

She's right. I don't trust her farther than I can run full-steam in a corset, but she's right. The truth is hard and unfair, but there it is.

Another time. I'm late for the show. You're always late. Well, at least I'm consistent.

being a good and reliable friend was pretty heroic when it came down to it.

What good is having a friend who's a cop if he won't give me inside information? So you can ask him to look at a piece of shit pistol after you've already bought it, and pronounce it a piece of shit.

Even dumb objects have their destiny. Rarely given a second thought, they perform their unconsidered duty day by day until their moment arrives and everything seems to hang on their location.

no excuses. I accept full responsibility

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.

To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters