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
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... - 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.... - All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise,
which is impossible. -- Tom... - Self-checking systems tend to have a complexity in proportion to
the inherent unreliability of the system in which they are used.
- Tom... - Gilb's Laws of Unreliability
1) Computers are unreliable,
but humans are even more unreliable. ... - A system tends to grow in terms of complexity rather than of simplification,
until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable... - 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...
From the same category:
- Life without caffeine is stimulating enough.
--
Sanka... - The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
The Tempest -- Act i, Sc.... - Illiterate? Write today,
for free help... - I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like
and give her a house.
Lewis... - Billy: Mom, you know that vase you said was handed down from
generation to generation?
Mom: Yes? Billy: Well, this generation dropped it...
