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Quotes About Trial

I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
~ A. Philip Randolph
I really liked figuring things out on my own. Early on in the development of a new version of Windows, I would explore it, I would try out various things, I would see what worked, I would see what didn't work.
~ Charles Petzold
A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.
~ William Shockley
The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
~ Laurie Anderson
The easiest thing is to create something no one has ever seen before. There's a reason no one's ever seen it - because someone tried it, and it didn't work in the real world.
~ Michael Bastian
But how will we learn from our mistakes if we don't make any?
~ Robyn Schneider
But how will we learn from our mistakes if we don't make any?
~ Robyn Schneider
In software, you can't know what's going to work, so, as Chuck put it, "When you build any new product, there's no sure way to know if the dogs are going to eat the dog food.
~ Roger Connors
An army of scientists had been called to evaluate the trial of Jonas Salk's vaccine in American back in 1955. But to evaluate the design and execution of the hugest vaccine trial of all time, and the validity of the results, there was just her (Dorothy Horstmann). No pressure, whatsoever.
~ Lynn Cullen
Everything that can be tested must be tested
~ Malcolm Gladwell
likely to commit a crime while awaiting trial than the 400,000 people released by the judges of New York City. 25 percent! In the bake-off, machine destroyed man.4
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Trial. (Fail.) (Succeed.) Repeat.
~ Kevin Focke
You do not know what is better before you have tried what is worse.
~ Thomas Rathsach Strange
I will learn by screwing up.
~ Greg Bear, Hull Zero Three
As with all hardships, he took this as yet another test of faith. He almost seemed glad he had been called upon on to endure it. And show how great his faith was. He would pass the test and save his son.
~ Amy Tan
Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of impatience and say: I don't understand
~ Anais Nin
In 1950 he was hardly likely to be on trial for heresy. But he certainly felt himself up against an irrational, superstitious barrier, and his predisposition was to defy
~ Andrew Hodges
Hilbert had written of Galileo that in his recantation 'he was not an idiot. Only an idiot could believe that scientific truth needs martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but scientific results prove themselves in time.' But this was not a trial of scientific truth.
~ Andrew Hodges
The object of trial is just to draw you away from what is earthly, in order that you may turn to God and give Him time to unite your will with His perfect will.
~ Andrew Murray
My dearest Clementina, said I, you have shewn so glorious a magnanimity, that it would be injuring you, to suppose you are not equal to every branch of duty. God forbid that you should be called to sustain an unreasonable trial — In a reasonable one, you must be victorious.
~ Samuel Richardson
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
~ Samuel Smiles
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
~ Samuel Smiles
Dispensing with the frivolity, he kissed her meaningfully. When at last he pulled away, her troubled expression alarmed him. What? Be careful, Hammond. No one will know I was here. She shook her head. Not that. Then what? You may have to put me on trial for my life. Please be careful that you don't make me fall in love with you first.
~ Sandra Brown
Gil said to Elfine, "I cannot make you an American if that is what you are asking. There is an ordeal all must pass. A trial by paperwork and years of waiting.
~ John C. Wright