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Liability Quotes

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

Garrett James Hardin (1985). “Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent”, Penguin Group USA

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.307, MIRA

It's such a liability to love another person.

Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.213, Hachette UK

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

"Paul Krugman: 'I'm sick of being Cassandra. I'd like to win for once'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2012.

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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.224, Random House

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

"The Emperor's Old Clothes". Tony Hoare's lecture at the 1980 ACM Turing Award in Nashville, Tennessee; "Communications of the ACM", Volume 24, Issue 2, dl.acm.org. February 1981.

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

Garrett James Hardin (1985). “Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent”, Penguin Group USA