Quotes About Error

Karen, you fuck up and I get sent to White Fang, Alaska as resident agent . . .

But the world is sleeping in ignorance and error, sir, and we must be crowing cocks, and singing larks, and a rising sun to awake her; or else we'll pull society up to the roots, and plant it in a different place. We'll build Alms-houses, and transcendental State prisons, and scaffolds -- we will blow out the sun, and the moon, and encourage invention. Alpha shall kiss Omega--we will ride up the hill of glory -- Hallelujah, all hail!

Furthermore the true Cynic must know that he is sent as a Messenger from God to men, to show unto them that as touching good and evil they are in error; looking for these where they are not to be found, nor ever bethinking themselves where they are.

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.

To design the perfect anti-Unix, write an operating system that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do. And then adds injury to insult by getting it wrong.

The fallibility of human beings guarantees that no technological system will ever be infallible.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

Reason is fallible and virtue invincible; the winds vary and the needle forsakes the pole, but stupidity never errs and never intermits.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

There can be no question of mistake or error raised before men who consider whatever they choose to do to be in itself the greatest of virtues.

My short answer? No. I don't think you can have too much psychological safety. I do think, however, that you can have not enough discipline. Psychological safety is about reducing interpersonal fear. Making it less heroic to ask a question or admit an error. It doesn't mean you automatically have a good strategy for getting the work done. It also doesn't mean

Durante minha longa carreira de magistrado, jamais tive conhecimento de um erro judiciário. — Eis aí uma declaração tranquilizadora - disse o senhor de Terremondre. — E que a mim me gela de pavor - murmurou monsieur Bergeret.

Em tese – disse o senhor Lerond –, um erro judiciário é uma coisa inverossímil. Direi mesmo que é uma coisa impossível, uma vez que a lei oferece garantias aos acusados. Digo-o em favor da justiça civil. Digo-o também a favor da justiça militar. Diante do Conselho de Guerra, o acusado, se não encontra todas as garantias nas formas um pouco sumárias do processo, poderá achá-las no caráter dos juízes.

I am concerned, I say, with facts which may belong to the order of pure observation, but which on each occasion present all the appearances of a signal, without our being able to say precisely which signal, and of what; facts which when I am alone permit me to enjoy unlikely complicities, which convince me of my error in occasionally presuming I stand at the helm alone.

Not until 1992 did the Catholic Church admit publicly that it had erred in the matter of censoring Galileo's ideas.

The amount of surprise you feel when something goes wrong is directly proportional to the amount of trust and faith you have in the code being run.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

They made a mistake. And it was an easy mistake to make. I don't regard setting incentives aggressively as a mistake. I think the mistake was, when the bad news came, they didn't recognize it directly. I don't think that impairs the future of Wells Fargo. They'll be better for it.

My predictions are notably inaccurate.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.