Librarians are more important than ever before. . . are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.
On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect for the Bible increased by the experience of excavation in Palestine. Archaeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics.
A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.
(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
Our confidence. . . is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.
There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not legitimate. As I see it, the case for the reliability or unreliability of various cognitive mechanisms lies elsewhere.
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.