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Quotes About Errors

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
What screws up doctors when they are trying to predict heart attacks is that they take too much information into account.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors. One
~ Malcolm Gladwell
That's what happens when you're tired. Your decision-making skills erode. You start missing things—things that you would pick up on any other day.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Un típico accidente comprende siete errores humanos consecutivos.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
~ Rene Descartes
Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
~ Vladimir Lenin
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
~ Grace Hopper
Men think they live and die for ideas. What a divine joke. They live and die for emotional, personal errors, just as women do.
~ Anais Nin
Software defects manifest themselves in a variety of ways, from misunderstood requirements to coding errors.
~ Andrew Hunt
Any mistakes that may remain are, of course, my responsibility.
~ Sandy Tolan
Trump ignores facts whenever they are inconvenient. I know you don't want to think this works in terms of persuasion. But it does. I want to be clear that I'm not expressing a preference for ignoring facts. I'm simply saying that a Master Persuader can do it and still come out ahead, no matter how many times the media points out the errors.
~ Scott Adams
I want to be clear that I'm not expressing a preference for ignoring facts. I'm simply saying that a Master Persuader can do it and still come out ahead, no matter how many times the media points out the errors.
~ Scott Adams
Bush's decision to overrule Cheney and fire Rumsfeld in many ways marked the end of the six-year foreign policy string of errors that Tom Ricks correctly described as a Fiasco.
~ John A. Nagl
Technological errors made by government, industry [DDT, ABM, SST, CIA, etc.] are those of children, who, even thought they don't know what the score is, go on playing pre-technological games of power and profit.
~ John Cage
I do not say with Cicero, that errors wear out by age, and that religion increases and grows better day by day. For the world (as will be shortly seen) labours as much as it can to shake off all knowledge of God
~ John Calvin
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
~ Graham Greene
Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit those mistakes.
~ Michael Demon Calce
What I had done was focus on a price that was of unique historical significance to me, only me, namely, my purchase price. Behavioral finance theorists, who have in recent decades begun to analyze the psychological errors in thinking that persistently bedevil most investors, call this anchoring (of yourself to a price that has meaning to you but not to the market).
~ Edward O. Thorp
A digital mentor has fewer errors, without distinctions; contrarily, a physical mentor has higher mistakes and errors, even with distinctive intuition and insight.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A digital mentor has fewer errors, without distinctions; contrarily, a physical mentor has uttermost mistakes and errors, even with distinctive intuition and insight.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
None of the writings, one can exclude from the grammatical errors and mistakes; it means not a verdict, for disqualification since thought and vision of every writing subject prevail, not the grammar.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
~ Eli Siegel
An unfortunate thing in a private organisation is that a person is not punished so much for committing mistakes intentionally as much for correcting own errors that was done inadvertently.
~ Anuj Somany