Quotes about error
errors history vomiting
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. Charles de Gaulle
errors mad void
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.) Charles Stross
errors events chance
You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied. Charles Spurgeon
errors needs done
If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.
errors programming reborn
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. Alan Perlis
errors mental-illness illness
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. David Mitchell
errors giving support
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou. Dave Barry
errors perception optical-illusions
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. Carl Sagan
errors safe reacting
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error. Bill Johnson
errors useless repentance
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. Edward Gibbon
errors political demand
The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science. David Ricardo
errors matter facts
Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors. David Hume
errors accountability criticism
Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. David Brin
errors shadow telescopes
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. Edwin Powell Hubble
errors lasts horizon
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be oppressed.
errors biographies someday
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. Barbra Streisand
errors answers may
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected. Benjamin Robbins Curtis
errors vagueness belief
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. Bertrand Russell
errors reform cost
The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy. Carlos Mesa
error mistakes room
We have no room for mistakes or error here. We have to find a way to get points.
errors hitting needed paid people positive switching trying
We were trying some new things, switching people around. We were having too many hitting errors and needed more positive hits. I think it paid off.
errors
I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go. Neil deGrasse Tyson
errors mistakes next
We're going to try and make every play. Errors and making mistakes are part of the game. I don't think errors are going to keep us down. We just have to try and make the next one. Orlando Cabrera
errors people needs
If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively. Bob McKenzie
errors bored solutions
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. Bjarne Stroustrup
errors happens
My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet. Ayrton Senna
errors purpose may
Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make. Ayn Rand
errors demand moral
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
errors evil waiting
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.
errors growth ingredients
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. Benjamin Cardozo
errors sincerity earnest
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. Benjamin Disraeli
errors quality bishops
This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
errors trying spirit
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison. C. S. Lewis