
"Tangled in the Party Line" in China File https://www.chinafile.com/tangled-party-line (6 September 2012)
Original: (it) La più reale ed affidabile qualità di conoscenza, è l'esperienza.
Source: prevale.net
"Tangled in the Party Line" in China File https://www.chinafile.com/tangled-party-line (6 September 2012)
The Emperor's Old Clothes
Context: [About PL/I] 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.
Newsnight 30th March 2011
Source: BBC iplayer, 37 mins online http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0101g7l/Newsnight_30_03_2011/
“The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.”
Reported in Stuart Borlase, ed., Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions (2013), p. 445.
Nothing’s Sacred (2005)