Quotes About Error

Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.

In the original Greek, one of the meanings of sin [hamartia] is simply "to miss the mark.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

The wisest of the wise may err.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

But I believe in luck - in destiny, if you will. It is your destiny to stand beside me and prevent me from committing the unforgivable error." "What do you call the unforgivable error?" "Overlooking the obvious.!

Justice is, after all, in the hands of men and men are fallible.

It is the kind of thing that happens to you when you are stupid," said Esa. "Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

What do you call the unforgivable error?" "Overlooking the obvious.

My theory is the truth," said Poirot quietly. "And the truth is necessarily correct. In your theory you made a fundamental error. You permitted your imagination to lead you astray with midnight assignations and passionate love scenes. But in investigating crime we must take our stand upon the commonplace.

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons .

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

You didn't weld it shut or anything like that?" "Yes, stupid me, I forgot.

Wall Street, in the main, hates uncertainty, which manifests itself in depressed share prices of companies whose prospects lack 'visibility.' But where the market can err is in confusing uncertainty with risk.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

MAILER-DAEMON.

It is not human to be wise," said Blood. "It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.

A slip of the tongue is not the fault of the mind a kick on the arse will bring back the mind

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

A prose work of some length that has something wrong with it.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.