Quotes About Error

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

There is no sin except stupidity.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over." Richard Branson, Entrepreneur, founder of Virgin Group

There is always a possibility of being wrong.

Now you've done it, haven't you, all you fools?

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

Son demasiadas las vidas configuradas sobre el engaño o el error, seguramente la mayoría desde que el mundo existe

Hay que cruzar una línea que ya no puede descruzarse para comprender y arrepentirse, para querer echarse atrás y aceptar que se ha metido la pata; hay que cometer un error hasta el fondo para comprobar que era un error, y entonces se intenta salir de él cuando ya es tarde para deshacerlo sin daños, o sin estropicios.

1. The "What Happened?" Conversation. Most difficult conversations involve disagreement about what has happened or what should happen. Who said what and who did what? Who's right, who meant what, and who's to blame? Jack and Michael tussle over these issues, both out loud and internally. Does the chart need to be redone ? Is Michael trying to intimidate Jack? Who should have caught the error?

A paradox is simply an error out of control; i.e. one that has trapped so many unwary minds that it has gone public, become institutionalized in our literature, and taught as truth.

The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: I think, therefore I am. He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

The philosopher Descartes believed that he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking.

Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am not enough. Other unconscious thoughts follow: I need to play a role in order to get what I need to be fully myself; I need to get more so that I can be more.

You forgot your main purpose. One small error, one misperception, creates a world of suffering.

In other words, you are waiting for an event in time to save you. Is this not the core error that we have been talking about? Salvation is not elsewhere in place or time. It is here and now.