Quotes About Mistakes

We were wrong about trains, we were wrong about planes, we were wrong about radio, we were wrong about phones, we were wrong about . . . well, for a voluminous list of the things we have been wrong about, you could do worse than dig out a copy of a book called The Experts Speak by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky.

Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes

The best thing about being young is being stupid. Or rather, the best thing about being young is being too stupid to know how stupid you really are.

Most people don't learn things along the way. Or if they do, they conveniently forget those things when it suits their need. Most people, given a second chance, fuck it up completely. It's one of those laws of the universe that you can't shake. People, I have noticed, only seem to learn once they get their third chance—after losing and wasting vast sums of time, money, youth, and energy—you name it. But still they learn, which is the better thing in the end.

In other words, the case, almost from the beginning, was more about covering up mistakes and protecting the careers of powerful people than in finding the truth about who killed Meredith Kercher.

The world is full of good people who do bad things!

Justice is, after all, in the hands of men and men are fallible.

It is the kind of thing that happens to you when you are stupid," said Esa. "Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

Don't use " backspace " every moment ,, because every time you do ,, you kill a space !!

As Oscar Wilde put it, Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. No no, Oscar, darl: Experience is the name of the whole darn game.

No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch for themselves. And we all make the same mistakes time and again while we're learning.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Making mistakes in centuries and generations past would have consequences that we could overcome. We don't have that luxury anymore.

You make all these decisions in your life, and they all seem like the right decisions at the time. You think you're doing the right thing. And it's only later that you realize, no, they were exactly the wrong decisions, and instead of bringing you what you wanted, they only carried you even farther away from your dreams. And somehow you've got to live with that.

The Only Thing More Expensive Than Writing Software Is Writing Bad Software

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

We've all been there, that deserted island called regret.

There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with close to two hundred thousand words my probabilistic mind tells me some are wrong.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

But the best managers expect their people to make mistakes, and instead of replacing staff constantly, they recognize that it is more efficient to teach people how to cope with their failures and learn from their

THE LESS SAID, the fewer mistakes; the greater the talk, the greater the headache. —YOSEF QIMHI (C. 1160–1235)

I believe that this danger of the mathematician making mistakes is an unavoidable corollary of his power of sometimes hitting upon an entirely new method. This seems to be confirmed by the well known fact that the most reliable people will not usually hit upon really new methods.