Quotes About Error

Anytime somebody is absolutely certain about something, they are almost always absolutely wrong

If you can screw up the case in the first few vital hours, it saves time and paperwork later.

The law is a fine thing, even when it's wrong.

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

I didn't go to film school. I just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring out what worked and what didn't work.

Little late for that now. I don't think an 'Oops, my bad, my weapon accidentally misfired two dozen rounds' will work to get me out of this. (Devyn)

I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero.

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

There is a sense of rationality and order to human error.

To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.

El error sugiere la falta de agudeza intelectual; la maldad, deficiencia de sabiduría; el pecado, pobreza espiritual abyecta; pero la iniquidad indica la pérdida del dominio de la personalidad.

Whatever the theory, it is important to note that clinicians such as Kluft draw attention to the clinical error of insisting that all alters talk as one or that only the alter with the legal name should be validated. 'Such stances are commonly associated with therapeutic failure'.

We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those who suggest that our exalted ideas, our little emperors, have no clothes.

When a criminal is rattled what does he do? He starts making mistakes.

The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly

Everything grows out of the soil of contingent circumstance. Convenience, rather than the shibboleth of progress of evolution, is the agent of change. Error and misjudgment therefore play a large part in what we are pleased to call the 'development' of institutions. A body of uses and misuses then takes on the carapace of custom and becomes part of a tradition.