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Quotes About Errors

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Sometimes, arguments results to fights because the wrong persons lack the courage to admit and accept their errors.
~ Terry Mark
There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
~ Unknown
The winners have attained a mind-set—a unique set of attitudes—that allows them to remain disciplined, focused, and, above all, confident in spite of the adverse conditions. As a result, they are no longer susceptible to the common fears and trading errors that plague everyone else.
~ Unknown
Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.
~ Jim Lehrer
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
~ Issac Asimov
Many, if not most, therapeutic errors are assessment errors; that is, they are therapeutic responses based on faulty understanding and assessment of the problem at hand.
~ Unknown
Notice how I'm playing the part of an enemy to code. I'm actively thinking about how I can break it. I find that state of mind to be both productive and fun. It indulges the mean-spirited part of my psyche. When you are doing tests, don't forget to check that expected errors occur properly.
~ Martin Fowler
he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors
~ Martin Heidegger
No great saint lived without errors.
~ Martin Luther
We rightly confess, in our articles of belief, that there is a holy church; for it is invisible, dwelling in a place that none can attain unto, and therefore her holiness cannot be seen; for God doth so hide and cover her with infirmities, with errors, with divers forms of the cross and offences, that according to the judgment of reason, it is nowhere to be seen.
~ Martin Luther
All Christian doctrine and life are gone, and there is left, instead of Christ, nothing more than Mohammed with his doctrine of works and especially of the sword. That is the chief doctrine of the Turkish faith in which all abominations, all errors, all devils are piled up in one heap.
~ Martin Luther
But God so governs His saints that even though they err and stray, the outcomes are nevertheless salutary or without great loss. For all things work together for good to the elect and those who believe (cf. Rom. 8:28), even errors and sins, and this is absolutely certain.
~ Martin Luther
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
~ Anais Nin
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Even most training errors, such as overtraining, originate in the fear of suffering.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Somos de tal naturaleza que nada nos lleva tan lejos y tan alto como los impulsos de nuestros errores
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
A science without philosophy would literally not know what it was talking about. A philosophy without methodological exploration of phenomena would end up with nothing but formal truths, which is to say, errors.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The most subtle bugs that we can inject are bugs related to inheritance.
~ Unknown
Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.
~ Michael Crichton, Prey
Many strategy errors emanate from mistaking the relevant industry, defining it too broadly or too narrowly p.37
~ Michael E. Porter
Good quality is less costly because of more accurate diagnoses, fewer treatment errors, lower complication rates, faster recovery, less invasive treatment, and the minimization of the need for treatment. More broadly, better health is less expensive than illness.
~ Michael E. Porter
THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM is on a dangerous path, with a toxic combination of high costs, uneven quality, frequent errors, and limited access to care.
~ Michael E. Porter
The same goes for such nonsense sentences as "Time is a concept", "Infinity is a concept", and "God is a concept". Those are all category errors.
~ Michael Huemer