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Quotes About Error

Wonderful! said the Duke. We progress! We...? Progress? You said we? Progress? It seems I erred, Avon sighed. We remain at the same place.
~ Georgette Heyer
nothing makes one so cross as knowing one is in the wrong, does it?
~ Georgette Heyer
The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
~ Usher
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
~ Frances Burney
Something about the WSL is that the margins for error are very small. In the Premier League you can get away with losing a couple of games, but the women's league is so short and the leaders tend to set the bar so high that if you lose a couple of games your title hopes are over.
~ Eniola Aluko
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
To err is human, but it feels divine.
~ Mae West
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.
~ Sean Penn
Some part of a mistake is always correct.
~ Savielly Tartakower
And the gap between what people think is wrong and what is actually wrong can be quite far indeed.
~ Scott Berkun
Your calculations are off. This merits a triple fuckdamn at least.
~ Scott Lynch
I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.
~ Scott Lynch
My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code to my code, I crash it as hard as possible—fail as early as possible.
~ Brad Fitzpatrick
I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.
~ Thomas Bernhard
I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.
~ William Shakespeare
Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.
~ Ken Wilber
Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.
~ Mark Twain
Czytaj?c ksi??ki o zdrowiu, uwa?ajcie. Jeden b??d drukarski mo?e was zabi?.
~ Mark Twain
An expert is a man who doesn't make the slightest error on the road to the Grand Illusion.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Es un error capital teorizar antes de tener datos. Sin darse cuenta, uno comienza a distorsionar los hechos para que se ajusten a las teorías, en lugar de formular teorías que se ajusten a los hechos
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Es un error emitir teorías antes de tener datos
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle