Reliable Quotes

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. (Hannah Arendt)
Metaphysical principles are tempting shortcuts but not reliable guides. There are good reasons why things often seem to happen for reasons-and also reasons why that's not a bedrock principle. View quote
Sean M. Carroll
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. View quote
Elon Musk
Fight Features. ... The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy. View quote
Cliff Stearns
At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible. View quote
Cliff Stearns
Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization. View quote
Dan Lipinski
Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community. View quote
Emma Bonino
As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations. (Tim Bishop)
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. View quote
Yuan T. Lee
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. View quote
Francis Crick
Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street. View quote
William Shockley
When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, "All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed" ... So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
True literature can exist only when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics. View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent non the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if his cloak got caught in a thorny bush. When he did turn to speak to somebody, he used to swing his entire body and dress him full face. When he shook hands, he was never the first to withdraw his own. He inspired such confidence that he was known as al-Amin, the Reliable One. (Karen Armstrong)
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. View quote
Iain Banks
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood. View quote
Kōki Hirota