Pet peeve of mine: "Trust but verify" is an oxymoron. If you "trust" someone/something you don't need to verify. I understand the sentiment, but it's based on a

Pet peeve of mine: "Trust but verify" is an oxymoron. If you "trust" someone/something you don't need to verify. I understand the sentiment, but it's based on a faulty assumption that trust is a binary state. It's most exemplary case is the use done by the security teams in most IT shops: "Yes, we did put endpoint protection on your laptop, it's not that we don't trust you -- but you know what they say...". I wish they would simply say:"Of course we don't trust you, not on this. You are going to click on that shady link or download and run random executables from the interwebs. But we do trust you're good at your job".