System Failures Quotes

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.

We have very substantial weaknesses, including all vital infrastructures.

There were big problems with every system, and there always have been.

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly any more, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organisations, this is one of the main reasons.

Unfortunately, the experience on HealthCare.gov has been highly frustrating for many Americans. These problems are unacceptable.

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines.

The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.

I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.

It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

We trained for a lot more malfunctions than any ever happen.

We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.

I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be knackered.

A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.

We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks.

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.