Quotes About Error

Most security failings happen because of human actions that are not envisaged when designing systems.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

Humans make mistakes.

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

Mistakes that cost lives aren't easy to understand or forgive, but they happen. Despite what they want us mortals to believe, doctors are human. And where there are human beings, there's human error. It's inevitable. When doctors make mistakes, people hurt.

But it is possible to study until one has studied oneself deep into error.

Of all the illusions of childhood, the one he hated to lose most was this: that humans worked according to unspoken but noble goals, that they followed an intrinsic path to justice, that they would resist error and move toward self-understanding.

Old Shelby said something interesting about facts: 'People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

Lenz snorts. "My mistake.

Mistakes are dominoes, falling on one another in a mechanical, unstoppable progression

We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong

It is better to be wrong than to be vague. In trial and error, the error is the true essential. —FREEMAN DYSON

Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. 'Cogito ergo sum' is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

I thought I had made a mistake, but I was mistaken.