Assuming Quote by Nancy Leveson

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

— Garrett Hardin

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

— Henry Petroski

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

“Insisting that operators always follow procedures does not guarantee safety although it does usually guarantee that there is someone to blame-either for following the…

— Nancy G. Leveson

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.

— Bram Stoker

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

Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

— Henry Petroski

"Safety First" is "Safety Always."

— Charles Melville Hays

Some things are more important than safety.

— Melissa Marr

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.

— Mary Shafer

I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

— Warren Farrell