Evidence Over Attestation
“No artifact, no closure. Attestation is a claim; evidence is an artifact.”
The whole series in eight words: attestation is what a system says about itself, evidence is what an observer can verify.

More lines from the same part
- “The third identical retry is treated as a finding rather than a feature.”
- “The people you want feel physically uncomfortable typing "done" without it.”
- “A rescue path is a courtesy to the customer only if someone is told it fired.”
- “On the recorded day that pause took a minute and saved an evening, three times.”