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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...
• 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....
• All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise, which is impossible. -- 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...
• Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb. Most of it's up, until you reach the very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.
  -- Sir George Head, OBE (JC)...
• 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...
• I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile -- Tom C.
  Clark...