Quotes About Error

You were a bit careless

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you're a nice egg but you've got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

That was a giant ball of fail. What now?

Estaba la teoría de Stendhal, de que el amor es un error. No es que a veces pueda errar, sino que por naturaleza es un error. El que ama se imagina perfecciones que no existen. Cuando esas fantasías desaparecen de la mente, cesa el amor. El amor no es ciego sino peor que ciego, es visionario, ve lo que no hay. A

Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.

La libertà è il solo mezzo per arrivare, mediante l'esperienza, al vero e al meglio: e non vi è libertà se non vi è la libertà dell'errore.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about so many aspects of nature.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals.

I'm an idiot.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

Sometimes when something doesn't go the way it should go, everyone blames the concept. Sometimes we screw up the way we implement it.

Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.

We're good at learning by tinkering—which is fortunate, because we're terrible at getting things right the first time.

Cost underestimation and overrun have not decreased over the past seventy years. No learning seems to take place; • Cost underestimation and overrun cannot be explained by error and seem to be best explained by strategic misrepresentation, namely lying, with a view to getting projects started.

and experience. Think of how people typically learn: We tinker. We try this. We try that. We see what works and what doesn't. We iterate. We learn. This is experimentation creating experience.

Think of how people typically learn: We tinker. We try this. We try that. We see what works and what doesn't. We iterate. We learn. This is experimentation creating experience.

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

History has taught us the futility of the conspiracy theory. Complexity gives rise to error, and in error we grow our prejudice.

Je le revendique. Mon père disait « toute erreur assumé devient un choix artistique ».

Toute erreur assumée devient un choix artistique

An aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom , but to set a limit on infinite error. Life of Galileo Quoted in The Perfectionists