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Self-checking Systems Tend To Have A Complexity In Proportion To The Inherent Unreliability Of The System In Which They Are Used.
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Self-checking systems tend to have a complexity in proportion to
the inherent unreliability of the system in which they are used.
-- 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....
A system tends to grow in terms of complexity rather than of simplification, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
-- Tom Gibb...
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...
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise, which is impossible. -- Tom Gibb
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...
RTFS /R-T-F-S/ [Unix] 1. imp. Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Source'.
Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals -- or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be....
app /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program.
Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes....
app: /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program.
Apps are what systems vendors are forever chasing developers to create for their environments so they can sell more boxes....
In any series of calculations, errors tend to occur at the opposite end to the end at which you begin checking for errors.
-- Grelb's Law of Erroring...