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The Error-detection And Correction Capabilities Of Any System Will Serve As The Key To Understanding The Type Of Errors Which They Cannot Handle.
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The error-detection and correction capabilities of any system will serve
as the key to understanding the type of errors which they cannot handle.
-- Tom Gibb
Related:
1. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
2. The only difference between the fool, and the criminal who attacks a system is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front....
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
-- Tom Gibb...
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise, which is impossible. -- Tom Gibb
Self-checking systems tend to have a complexity in proportion to the inherent unreliability of the system in which they are used.
-- Tom Gibb...
Gilb's Laws of Unreliability 1) Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
Corollary: At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer....
A system tends to grow in terms of complexity rather than of simplification, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
-- Tom Gibb...
Apathy error: Don't bother striking any key.
System halted: Press any key to do nothing.
Apathy error: Strike any key, or none. Who cares!