Quotes About Reliability

Does reliability reinforce your illusion of control? If so, I wonder if in developed countries (I won't use the hateful term civilized), the treacherous, illusion-crushing process of aging is more difficult to bear. Am I having an easier time than women my age in London? Marie-Thérèse

The memory seems both real and unreal, reliable and tenuous, solid and insubstantial.

My books show me what it's like to live in a reliable country where you flick on a switch and a bulb is guaranteed to shine and remain on, where you know that cars will stop at red lights and those traffic lights will not cease working a couple of times a day. How does it feel when a plumber shows up at the designated time, when he shows up at all? How does it feel to assume that when someone says she'll do something by a certain date, she in fact does it?

It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

The trouble was, I had the dumb loyalty of a dog.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

The world is so heavily influenced by technology, and it has started to feel like it's not on solid ground. The world has become unreliable, unknowable. Facts are vulnerable, and things you have come to rely on are no longer there.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

I tell myself, every morning when I wake up, two things. Don't let the world down. Don't let our users down.

The last thing you want to do is put a GM in a situation where he trades away an asset and then the guy walks out the door. Like, you can't do business that way.

When you are entrusted with an assignment, you do your best.

I try to be as honest as I can and that's the best way to do things.

Do not betray the people.

I'm not a big fan of having my loyalty called into question.

Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

I have a favorite blue Telecaster. It's an old '60-something, which I play at every show. That's probably my favorite all-around stage guitar.

Growing up, I was taught a man's word is his bond.

How I am in the booth, how I am when I meet you, that's how I am in general.

I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.

I want to be one of those guys that is not bouncing around from team to team.