Quotes About Error

And the fundamental point of all these massively parallel experiments is the same: when a problem reaches a certain level of complexity, formal theory won't get you nearly as far as an incredibly rapid, systematic process of trial and error.

Occasionally, a good idea comes to you first, if you're lucky. Usually, it only comes after a lot of bad ideas.

So the goal isn't to get good ideas; the goal is to get bad ideas. Because once you get enough bad ideas, then some good ones have to show up.

A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority.

Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's most important deputy, did not follow every twist of Hitler's thinking, but he grasped the conclusions: Ethics as such was the error; the only morality was fidelity to race.

Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?" The entire bridge had gone deathly still. Colclazure swallowed again, his face starting to go pale. "No, sir." "Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

No battle plan can anticipate all contingencies. There are always unexpected factors including those stemming from the opponent's initiative. A battle must thus becomes a balance between plan and improvisation, between error and correction. It is a narrow line. But it is a line one's opponent must also walk. For all the balance of experience and cleverness, it is often the warrior who acts quickest who will prevail.

Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

LORD GORING: (after a long pause) Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

Si (...), divina. Y no divina por un error, divina por elección, por derecho.

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

Among the popular errors of modern times, an opinion prevails that miracles are events which transpire contrary to the laws of nature, that they are effects without a cause. If such is the fact, then, there never has been a miracle, and there never will be one. The laws of nature are the laws of truth. Truth is unchangeable, and independent in its own sphere. A law of nature never has been broken. And it is an absolute impossibility that such law ever should be broken.

admitamos rápidamente y con entusiasmo el error.

Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose. Being

Science makes an error," he said, the gentle laughter fading from his voice, "in cutting itself off from nature. In thinking of itself as separate. I feel a chill inside my heart when I imagine where such an error might lead.

It's always terrible when you realize that you've married the wrong book.

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

In philosophy all truth is old and only error is original.

what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn't a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can't set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there's nothing we can do about them.

He'd made the classic mistake, the one he'd sworn he'd never make.