Quotes About Error

His myopic error gave new meaning to the phrase "a shot at greatness," and the others teased him about it for years. Of course, history might have been quite changed had the mistake been more serious. Perhaps most scandalous of all, they waited many years before informing the press.

those building reports must make sure the mechanisms that generate the reports are not too complex. Whenever possible, reports should be drawn directly from the master data, rather than from an intermediate system, which reduces opportunities for error.

We are saying that women -- as a sex -- are not more sinful than men. Women are not more deceivable than men. Women are not less intelligent than men. Women are not more prone to error than men. Women are not more dangerous than men. Women are not more arrogant or domineering than men. Women are not to be viewed with more suspicion than men. All women are born into sin, unrighteous by both nature and choice -- as are all men.

its core a problem-solving process. Research into the nature of problem solving shows it to consist of trial and error, directed by some amount

error information" that they gained. (In the trial-and-error formulation of the learning process, error is the new information or learning derived from an experiment by an experimenter: it is the aspect(s) of the outcome that the experimenter did not predict.) Developers then use the new learning to modify and improve the solution under development before building and running a new trial (figure 5.1).

The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead.

The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions.

We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.

from my perspective they were looking at the problem the wrong way.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

A government that spoke of military glory as an aim would betray ignorance of, or contempt for, the spirit of nations and the age. It would be an error by a thousand years. Even if it should initially succeed, it would be interesting to see who in the end would win this odd wager, our own century or the offending government.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

He that speaks much is much mistaken.

138. Elegancy, is a good Meen and Address given to Matter, be it by proper or figurative Speech: Where the Words are apt, and allusions very natural, Certainly it has a moving Grace: But it is too artificial for Simplicity, and oftentimes for Truth. The Danger is, lest it delude the Weak, who in such Cases may mistake the Handmaid for the Mistress, if not Error for Truth.

which we once esteemed truths, were errors; and that others, which we had esteemed errors, were real truths.

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture is free of contradiction and error - doctrinally, historically, and scientifically.