Quotes About Error

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

Indeed, the big U.S. error after 9/11 was to treat Pakistan as if it were an ally. With an ally, it is possible to assume a large degree of policy overlap. With Pakistan, no such assumption can be made.

Even the gods pardon someone who makes a mistake.

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.

Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

Could your data be wrong? Could

Could your data be wrong?

There was a bug in GDB!

Seibel: What are the techniques that you use there? Print statements? Armstrong: Print statements. The great gods of programming said, "Thou shalt put printf statements in your program at the point where you think it's gone wrong, recompile, and run it.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them

wrong mistakes.

There is a difference between failure caused by ignorance and failure caused by negligence.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there's no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It's in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect: the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience.

But that the charge of Sabellianism and Montanism should be repeatedly urged against our doctrines, is much the same as if one should lay to our charge the blasphemy of the Anomœans. For if one were carefully to investigate the falsehood of these heresies, he would find that they have great similarity to the error of Eunomius.

Forecasters who can't cope with the dissonance risk making the most serious possible forecasting error in a conflict: underestimating your opponent.

Trying to get to the answer before one has understood all the right questions is a prime source of error in human affairs.

miscalculation of tragic proportions,

Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my mode of warfare? With the axe of truth I strike at the root of every tree of error and hew it down, so that there shall not be one error in man showing itself in the form of disease.

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.