Quotes About Error

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake.

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

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

The entire life of the human soul is mere motions in the shadows. We live in a twilight of consciousness, never in accord with whom we are or think we are. Everyone harbours some kind of vanity, and there's an error whose degree we can't determine. We're something that goes on during the show's intermission; sometimes, through certain doors, we catch a glimpse of what may be no more than scenery. The world is one big confusion, like voices in the night.

O espelho reflecte certo; não erra porque não pensa. Pensar é essencialmente errar. Errar é essencialmente estar cego e surdo.

Ah, che errore doloroso e crasso quel distinguo che i rivoluzionari fanno tra borghesia e popolo, tra aristocrazia e popolo o tra governanti e governati. La vera distinzione risiede tra adattati e disadattati: il resto e letteratura e per di più cattiva letteratura. 176 [1929]

Se que he sido error y extravío, que no he vivido nunca, que solamente he existido porque he matado el tiempo con conciencia y pensamiento.

Ä°ster savaÅŸmak söz konusu olsun ister ak?l yürütmek, bütün eylemler hatal?d?r; t?pk? insan?n herhangi bir ÅŸey yapmaktan kaç?nmas? gibi. Ah bir bilebilseydim hem hiçbir ÅŸey yapmaman?n, hem de eylemden vazgeçmemenin yolunu! Zaferimi simgeleyen hayal tac?na, yücelenlerin sessizlik asas?na kavuÅŸmuÅŸ olurdum o zaman.

Dac?,din întâmplare,aceast? lume e o greÅŸeal? iar eu sunt adev?rat? Dac? lumea e o greÅŸeal? înseamn? c? este o greÅŸeal? a tuturor oamenilor. Åži fiecare dintre noi este cel puÅ£in greÅŸeala fiec?ruia dintre noi. Dar de ce îmi pun eu întreb?ri,dac? nu pentru c? sunt bolnav?

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

I think that the direct conversation is exactly what companies need to earn trust of customers. Admit an error. Fix a problem. Commit to doing better. That is only human.

Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is aligned with the human tendency for error; and that only through dislocations in scale - the scale of sample size and of time - will truth emerge.

I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they're not terribly proud of, but that's how you learn.

Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

An error which is not perpetuated cannot be viewed as any error at all.