Keyword: Reliability

The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the number and significance of any persons watching it.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Murphy’s Laws

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

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A component’s degree of reliability is directly proportional to its ease of accessibility (i.e., the harder it is to get to, the more often it breaks down).

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