Quotes About Mistake

When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Gilks sighed. 'You're a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,' he said, 'but you make the same mistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.

É um erro acreditar que é possível resolver qualquer problema importante usando apenas batatas.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Yes. Five minutes later and it wouldn't have mattered so much. It was a quite shocking cock-up." "Huh?" said Arthur. "The mice were furious." "The mice were furious?" "Oh yes," said the old man mildly. "Yes, well, so I expect were the dogs and cats and duck-billed platypuses, but . . ." "Ah, but they hadn't paid for it, you see, had they?

t is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

working overtime to make up for their earlier blunder. They brought

Ford even began to whistle, which was probably his mistake. Nobody likes a whistler

Thirty seconds into the conversation, and already he'd blown it. Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

He had had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live. You also panic.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.

In the spirit of Ethan's neurosis, we made a drywall list of keyboard buttons we would like to see: PLEASE, THANK YOU, FUCK OFF, DIE, OOPS...MY MISTAKE, DO SOMETHING COOL AND SURPRISE ME .

It is a capital mistake to develop a premature hypothesis in the absence of hard data.

In the original Greek, one of the meanings of sin [hamartia] is simply "to miss the mark.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

But I believe in luck - in destiny, if you will. It is your destiny to stand beside me and prevent me from committing the unforgivable error." "What do you call the unforgivable error?" "Overlooking the obvious.!

What do you call the unforgivable error?" "Overlooking the obvious.

Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially. - Alex Restarick