Quotes About Fail-safe

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized form of money, as durable as the Internet itself. Remember, the Internet - or DARPA, as it was originally called - was created as a fail-safe, global network with no 'single point of failure.' If one part goes down, data takes another route, and nothing is lost.

wasn't dementia a fail-safe and soothing oblivion of the machine to its own decay?

A showdown meant war. The whole Positive Control system really depended on equipment that could never really be tested until the time came for its first use, and because of this nobody could ever really know in advance whether or not it would work right. The Fail-Safe machines could be truly tested only once: the single time they were used.

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

Surely Dorian Purcell has secretly authorized this extreme measure, his idea of a fail-safe.