logo

Quotes About Errors

Los dispositivos digitales evitan errores pequeños pero preparan el terreno para grandes errores».
~ Tim Harford
Most of the music teachers were less pleased, as I regularly corrected their factual errors while still managing to flunk their general exams.
~ Tim Page
There were no disagreements in Stalin's universe, only heresies; no critics, only enemies; no errors, only crimes. The trials served both to illustrate Stalin's virtues and identify his enemies' crimes. They also illuminate the extent of Stalin's paranoia and the culture of suspicion that surrounded him.
~ Tony Judt
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
~ Carl Levin
The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.
~ Carl Zimmer
I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong.
~ Carla Bruni
The Einstein who makes more errors than anyone else is precisely the same Einstein who succeeds in understanding more about nature than anyone else.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Whether you deliver or receive the handover report, mindful communication during handovers is essential and can significantly reduce the risk of errors and accidents during your shift and the ones that follow.
~ Carmel Sheridan
The primary causes of errors in nursing are distraction and stress.
~ Carmel Sheridan
If you reduce your levels of distraction and stress, errors are less likely.
~ Carmel Sheridan
Administering medications is the nursing activity most associated with errors.
~ Carmel Sheridan
Clinical handovers are high-risk situations for patient safety. Errors lead to delays in diagnosis and treatment, unnecessary tests and treatments, incorrect patient treatment, increases in the length of hospital stay, patient complaints, and malpractice claims.
~ Carmel Sheridan
In 1976 Friedman suffered a crippling intellectual trauma that for the rest of his life seriously affected his thinking. The king of Sweden awarded him a Nobel Prize for economic science, specifically for his errors—his monetary theory and his permanent income hypothesis.
~ George Gilder
Many stubborn errors of assertion and denial, he went on, are the result of some good minds in each generation having claimed to do the work of twenty or a hundred and claiming, at the same time, that they have put their finger on the "heart of the matter.
~ Georges Dumézil
lack drama. Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make drastic organizational changes to resolve the crises their poor management has created? Why not reward the programmers who design so well that they don't have dramatic errors, and managers whose organizations stay out of crisis mode? Organizing
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
~ Georges Bidault
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.
~ Lord Acton
There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
~ Winston Churchill
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
~ Anatole France
It is often said that the divided condition of Christendom is an evil, and so it is. But the evil consists in the existence of the errors which cause the divisions and not at all in the recognition of those errors when once they exist.
~ J. Gresham Machen
There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
~ Tony Hoare
Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time.
~ Rob Pike
Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.
~ Trofim Lysenko
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
~ Winston Churchill