Famous Quotes & Sayings

We alerted them by mail and sent a second letter on Thursday saying, 'It turns out nothing happened. We're always going to err on the side of protecting people.

Tonight was the first time we haven't found a way to get it done in a game like this. Our margin for error has been very slim, but we've always found a way to get it done.

We're not putting anything together right now. We're not hitting or pitching real well, and we made some big errors that hurt us.

We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little mental errors make the games look bad.

Too many errors and walks, the later it got the more errors and the more we threw it around. It was a win, but it wasn't a pretty win.

We did not order this book. It was shipped to us in error by one of our distributors,

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

Overall records are misleading, we are treating the PSAC West schedule as a new season and we are pushing for a PSAC playoff spot. We must execute better and our margin of error is very small right now.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

C. S. Lewis

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

C. S. Lewis

After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

Carl Sagan

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

Carl Sagan

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Carl Sagan

They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

Carl Sagan

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

Bertrand Russell

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

It is an unusual situation. Normally, you would expect the government to err on the optimistic side.

Jack Kemp

I think Dick Gephardt has made a real error in calculating his possibilities for the year 2000 if that's what he's doing,

I saw the error to be, that men think that it will be something seen by the natural eye; but 'tis spiritual discernment that is needed, the eye of God in his people.

Some of these errors were just the routine kind of plays. And then we get run-ruled because of it. We're not talented enough to overcome those mistakes.

I was very pleased. We didn't have as many team errors as well, and the score showed it.

Roger Federer

I was the guy making all the errors and he was not. He was playing a few good shots. I had a few sloppy points here and there. He made me doubt.

Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human.

Mallory had a great tournament and she is just a sophomore. She only had one hitting error in all of the games, which is pretty amazing.

It is likely that the discrepancy is an inventory or clerical error and not truly missing samples.

Recent figures have been erratic and this quarter's are disappointing. However, taking the year as a whole the number of people in work is up by over 200,000.

Part of the reason they had errors is because we're hitting it hard. We hit some on the nose.

Billy Donovan

Our margin for error is small. We are not more talented than any team we play against.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

We'll see, we will err on the side of caution.

David Cameron

we are all human and we err and stray.

Carl Jung

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

Carl Jung

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth