Quotes About Error

a technician who uses the term "glitch" is like a Doctor who tells you you're suffering from a "thingy," except the doctor won't tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.

Whenever someone uses the word 'glitch,' which means a fault of some kind in a system, you should immediately be suspicious, because it means that they don't know what it is. A technician who uses the term 'glitch' is like a doctor who tells you you're suffering from a 'thingy,' except the doctor won't tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.

And the ignorant, as always, will be wrong.

A perfect image was like a gift of grace, but sin would always be swiftly punished. A sort of Calvinist dogma, where you never knew when you were right, but must be constantly vigilant against error.

it is of the highest concernment that care should be taken of its conduct is a moderate statement. While the power of thought frees us from servile subjection to instinct, appetite, and routine, it also brings with it the occasion and possibility of error and mistake. In elevating us above the brute, it opens to us the possibility of failures to which the animal, limited to instinct, cannot sink.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

The most may err as grossly as the few.

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

You are always a little bit wrong

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

A clock does not power itself. It has to be wound. A heart also does not power itself; it must encounter things that bring it joy in life in order for it to be full. This is why saying, 'I am love' is a error. It's 'I love God' which makes the difference.

The delay often holds two terms within it; one technical error, and another one moral corruption.

You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!

concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension.

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

Fourth, except in the rare case of an obvious scrivener's error, purpose—even purpose as most narrowly defined—cannot be used to contradict text or to supplement it.

Last night, as I slept, I dreamt- marvelous error!- that it was God I had here inside my heart.

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt -- O, marvelous error -- That there was a beehive here inside my heart And the golden bees were making white combs And sweet honey from all my failures.