Humans Quote by Garrett Hardin Download Open image “(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)” — Garrett Hardin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Reliability Technology
“Reliability Is a Tech Problem, but the Way You Solve It Is Not with Technology Alone—It’s with Communication” — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
“Human error is not random. It results from basic human mental abilities and physical skills combined with the features of the tools being used,… — Nancy G. Leveson Copy Share Image
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“that (11) Purveyors of technical systems will seek to define performance criteria and trials conditions.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error. — Kenneth Appel Copy Share Image
Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask,… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“Individualism is cherished because it produces freedom, but the gift is conditional.” — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
