A Quote by Garrett Hardin

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

Garrett Hardin

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Human Reliability System Technology

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Garrett Hardin
American - Environmentalist
April 21, 1915 - September 14, 2003

Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.

Nancy Leveson

Economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in past generations in America, was through religion. The religions instilled guilt. ... And this guilt, derived from religion, has been a huge driver of a reliability ethos, which has been very helpful to economic outcomes for man.

Charlie Munger

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.

Hilary Kornblith

People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

Garrett Hardin

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

Jean-Michel Jarre

The Belarussian people trust their army and are confident in the reliability of the national security system.

Alexander Lukashenko

At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

Tony Hoare

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

Anders Hejlsberg

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

Marc Benioff

As the technology matures, it becomes less and less relevant. The technology is taken for granted. Now, new customers enter the marketplace, customers who are not captivated by technology, but who instead want reliability, convenience, no fuss or bother, and low cost.

Donald A. Norman

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

Carl Sagan

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.