Quotes About Error

When a safety makes a mistake in the middle of the field, everybody should notice.

And you are almost never right about anything,' he said, pointing at the Humbug. 'and, when you are, it's usually an accident.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them — noticing them — that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

There is no sin except stupidity.

You always get everything wrong. It's Goofy. It's not nuts.

Not even PEBKAC this time," Van said. Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.

If you installed something wrong, the system tried to find a way to work around your stupid mistake.

My point of view is fallacious!

One of the things I'm good at spotting in myself is the fundamental attribution error: that's when you assume that your own dumb mistakes are the result of normal, excusable human fallibility, while other people's mistakes are the result of their fundamental lack of character.

Man is a mistake. He must go.

we really fucked up the engineering on this

At stake was the virtue of free expression, and Franklin summed up the Enlightenment position in a sentence that is now framed on newsroom walls: "Printers are educated in the belief that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; and that when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions!!!

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

He'd crossed the line, man. He'd crossed it big-time.

But thinking of Mattie's marriage, I saw too how a marriage, in bringing two people into each other's presence, must include loneliness and error. I imagined a moment when the husband and wife realize that their marriage includes their faults, that they do not perfect each other, and that in making their marriage they also fail it and must carry to the grave things they cannot give away.

Romanists again admit that many false traditions have prevailed in different ages and in different parts of the Church. Those who receive them are confident of their genuineness, and zealous in their support. How shall the line be drawn between the true and false? By what criterion can the one be distinguished from the other? Protestants say there is no such criterion, and therefore, if the authority of tradition be admitted, the Church is exposed to a flood of superstition and error.

There is in every department of investigation great liability to error. Almost all false theories in science and false doctrines in theology are due in a great degree to mistakes as to matters of fact.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future..

Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.

workload has become more "bunched," with long periods of inactivity and short bursts of intense activity. Both of these are error-inducing modes of operation.