reliability quotes

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

Let no such man be trusted.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

Trust, but verify.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

A promise must never be broken.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.