Quotes About Error

With personal intervention on behalf of the principle of openness, which exposes crime as well as error to public view, Niels Bohr played a decisive part in the rescue of the Danish Jews.

Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

From Flowering Judas ] She is, her comrades tell her, full of romantic error, for what she defines as cynicism in them is merely 'a developed sense of reality'.

I screwed up. Again. You're shocked, I'm sure.

And when things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

A mistake is a mistake. Another mistake is normal. Only the same mistake twice makes you a fool.

Algunos camaradas cometen el error de subestimar la ciencia pura en favor de la investigación práctica

done wrong." "No

La opinión pública puede equivocarse.

Todos los hombres cometen errores», dijo el filósofo griego Sófocles.

In the early days of my first property management and real estate deals, there was a lot of trial and error and I made my share of mistakes. But for every one mistake I made, I learned ten lessons and got smarter every day. I started to see patterns, discover formulas and systems, and develop a network of people I could count on. It took time and it took work, but the more I pursued my dream, the luckier I felt and the more often magical opportunities presented themselves to me.

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

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

Toda cultura es provisional, porque siempre otra cultura está al acecho. Toda cultura es tanteo, exploración, experimento, y siempre sabemos que del descubrimiento del error y de la conciencia del error puede nacer lo nuevo.

It is the very error of the moon;She comes more near the earth than she was wont,And makes men mad.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.

Nor is it only in prophane history that instances like these are to be found, of persons committing the greatest crimes with a sincere conviction of the rectitude of their conduct. Scripture will afford us parallels; and it was surely to guard us against the very error which we have been now exposing, that our blessed Saviour forewarned his disciples: "The time cometh, that whosoever [Pg 13] killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Sus pretensiones, pues, son infundadas, porque el esfuerzo realizado no nos hace más competentes, sino menos; la ejecución, en términos generales, será deficiente, propensa al error y requerirá más tiempo del que hubieran exigido las tareas por separado.

Jesus, we forgot the goddamn ape!

He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

I don't like it when really smart people do things that seem dumb. Makes me think I'm figuring something wrong.