Quotes about reliability
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Quotes about reliability

"The Man Who Invented The AK-47 Has Died — Here's His Greatest Regret" by Adam Taylor, in Business Insider (23 December 2013) http://www.businessinsider.com/mikhail-kalashnikovs-death-and-his-greatest-regret-2013-12#ixzz2oW7igOTn

I, xxi, 41. Modern translation by J.H. Taylor
De Genesi ad Litteram

1860s, First State of the Union address (1861)

On the Confrontation Clause: Writing for the majority in Crawford v. Washington 541 U.S. 36 http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-9410.ZO.html (2004).
2000s

The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XI: Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted
1920s

"Kalashnikov, 90, decries 'criminal' use of rifle" by Dmitry Solovyov, at Reuters (26 October 2009) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLQ148454

The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)

E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 1
Minima Moralia (1951)
Context: The son of well-to-do parents who … engages in a so-called intellectual profession, as an artist or a scholar, will have a particularly difficult time with those bearing the distasteful title of colleagues. It is not merely that his independence is envied, the seriousness of his intentions mistrusted, that he is suspected of being a secret envoy of the established powers. … The real resistance lies elsewhere. The occupation with things of the mind has by now itself become “practical,” a business with strict division of labor, departments and restricted entry. The man of independent means who chooses it out of repugnance for the ignominy of earning money will not be disposed to acknowledge the fact. For this he is punished. He … is ranked in the competitive hierarchy as a dilettante no matter how well he knows his subject, and must, if he wants to make a career, show himself even more resolutely blinkered than the most inveterate specialist. The urge to suspend the division of labor which, within certain limits, his economic situation enables him to satisfy, is thought particularly disreputable: it betrays a disinclination to sanction the operations imposed by society, and domineering competence permits no such idiosyncrasies. The departmentalization of mind is a means of abolishing mind where it is not exercised ex officio, under contract. It performs this task all the more reliably since anyone who repudiates this division of labor—if only by taking pleasure in his work—makes himself vulnerable by its standards, in ways inseparable from elements of his superiority. Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game.

Source: The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966), p. 26-27

“People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t”
Source: Moab Is My Washpot

“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
Source: De Senectute, De Amicitia

“Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”

“Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.”
Source: Clockwork Angel

William Black talking with Oskar
"A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem" (p. 297)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: "It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene... Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good."

Source: Children of the Future: On the Prevention of Sexual Pathology

“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)

Source: From the Desk of the Chairman... http://nirc-icai.org/Newsletter/NewsletterFebruary2012.pdf, Northern India Regional council of the ICAI, News Letter, February 2012
Source: "Spirituality as Mindfulness: Biblical and Buddhist Approaches", p. 43

Source: Value-free science?: Purity and power in modern knowledge, 1991, p. 10

Source: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 6, p. 161

Source: "The New Russia" 1928, p. 25
Foreword to A. Hassner and I. Namboothiri, Organic Syntheses Based on Name Reactions: A practical guide to 750 transformations Third Edition (2012)
Source: Software Engineering: Principles and Practice, 2007, p. 279

“A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter II, Of Coins and Treasure
Introduction: an evolutionary riddle, p. 10
In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (2002)

Newsnight 30th March 2011
Source: BBC iplayer, 37 mins online http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0101g7l/Newsnight_30_03_2011/
Source: The Nature of Geography (1939), p. 215-216; as cited in: John A. Agnew, James S. Duncan (2011) The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography. p. 122

“It does everything Unix does only less reliably.”
In response to the question, "Can you sum up plan 9 in layman's terms?"
Plan 9 fortune file (1992)

On the engagement ring he gave to Kate Middleton, which had been his mother's engagement ring.
First post-engagement interview (2010)

Youtube, Other, Faith is not a virtue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDal8b6-X5o (June 20, 2012)

Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 2 : Science and Hope, p. 30

Quoted from a "Speech to followers" by Ost-Information (Berlin), No. 81 (4 December 1920); as quoted in The Foreign Policies of Soviet Russia (1924) by A. L. O. Dennis, p. 154.
Attributions
Source: The Visible Hand (1977), p. 87.
As quoted in Michael Scheuer's Non-Intervention http://non-intervention.com/1689/democrats-scourge-the-south-after-the-battle-flag-it%e2%80%99s-on-to-old-hickory/ (9 July 2015), by M. Scheuer.
2010s

depends on the situation
The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management

Edmund Phelps "Keynes had no sure cure for slumps."in: The Financial Times. Columbia University, November 4, 2008.

When asked what did alcohol lead him to ** Chris Cornell’s 2006 Interview on Audioslave, Addiction, and Reinventing Rock, Spin, 17 May 2017, 31 May 2017 http://www.spin.com/2017/05/chris-cornell-audioslave-interview/,
Audioslave Era
“On Preparing to Read Kipling”, p. 125
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 24, Bits, Bucks, Hits and Nuts, Information theory beyond Shannon, p. 221

Muhammad: A Prophet of Our Times
Muhammad: A Biography of The Prophet (2001)

“Nature may not be benign, but she is reliable.”
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 13 (p. 157)

“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.”
1970s, How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
"Wanna Buy a Future?"

The Nuclear Illusion http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Energy/E08-01_AmbioNuclIlusion.pdf p. 1. (May 2008)

"Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency: Torture Produces Unreliable Information" http://web.archive.org/web/20070629145037/http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/blog/torture/2007/12/former-director-of-defense-intelligence.html, Human Rights First (2007-12-11)
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (1979), p. 145; cited in C. WEST CHURCHMAN: CHAMPION OF THE SYSTEMS APPROACH http://filer.case.edu/nxb41/churchman.html, 2004-2007 Case Western Reserve University

As quoted in "Shockley's Race View called 'Senile, Fascist'" in St. Petersburg Times (8 September 1971) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19710908&id=sewNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vnUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4930,1230689

“The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.”
Reported in Stuart Borlase, ed., Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions (2013), p. 445.

Missing the Market Meltdown http://www.newsweek.com/id/137501 (May 2008)

“Meeting of the Presidium of the Petrograd Soviet With Delegates From the Food Supply Organisations” (27 January 1918); Collected Works, Vol. 26, p. 503.
1910s

Von Foerster (1960) as cited in Peter M. Asaro (2007). "Heinz von Foerster and the Bio-Computing Movements of the 1960s," http://cybersophe.org/writing/Asaro%20HVF%26BCL.pdf
1960s
Believing Three Ways in One God: A Reading of the Apostles' Creed (1992)

Glasersfeld (1984) "An Introduction to Radical Constructivism", as cited in: Frederick Burwick, Walter Pape (1990) Aesthetic Illusion: Theoretical and Historical Approaches. pp.26-27

“A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire” (January 5, 1930)

In one of his letters to Gestapo chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner, July 21, 1944 cited in Awake! magazine, 1993, 4/22, article: What Hope for an End to War?
1940s
Source: Atrocities in Vietnam: Myths and Realities, 1970, pp. 87-88.
Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 6 (p. 55)
Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 4 (p. 249)

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/latter-days-2004 of Latter Days (13 February 2004)
Reviews, Two-and-a-half star reviews

2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)

Bauer (1972) "Software Engineering", In: Information Processing. p. 71

Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)
Source: That Greece Might Still be Free (1972), p. 15-16.

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 17, “Binabik” (p. 253).

"Inside Track", PC Magazine (22 October 1996)
1980s & 1990s

About the Maldive Islands , The Rehalã of Ibn Battûta translated into English by Mahdi Hussain, Baroda, 1967.
Travels in Asia and Africa (Rehalã of Ibn Battûta)
Brian Vickery (2009) " The development of knowledge http://web.archive.org/web/20100125043520/http://www.lucis.me.uk/devtknow.htm" on lucis.me.uk, 2009.