Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moliere

Too great haste leads us to error.

Moliere

The smallest errors are always the best.

Oliver Goldsmith

Error is ever talkative.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

Errol Morris

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Our errors really killed us. We weren't really hitting at all.

Celinda Lake

The mood of the public and the errors of the administration really open up tremendous opportunities.

An error started the inning and then we give up an infield single. Then before you know it, it's 6-0.

Right now, we do not have a large margin for error. Unforced errors are unacceptable.

Right now, we do not have a large margin for error, ... Unforced errors are unacceptable.

It was a huge game of runs throughout the game. We talked about putting them away at halftime and they went on a 13-0 run that put us down. It was mostly unforced errors on our part and good play on theirs.

That's why, I think, any order to evacuate has to come early. Sometimes we're going to err on the side of caution,

Alan Cox

They put over 100 million gates/transistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon there are more lines than there are on a roadmap of London - and they work. There are very very few errors in a microprocessor.

Joe Garagiola

The White Sox (early 60s) are rightly called the 'Hitless Wonders' -- their idea of offense is a walk, an error and a hurricane.

There was no weapon involved. There was some initial erroneous information, but every inmate was interviewed and searched. Nothing was found.

There were a lot of walks, a lot of errors and not a lot of hits.

There were actually more than 950 different medications recorded in these error reports.

Dave Allen

There were too many handling errors and missed tackles - we're not happy about the result.

Lance Berkman

There's a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasn't a lot of fun.

Rick Carlisle

They played great and we didn't give them much of a game tonight. Our margin for error is slim. We can't have any slippage. Our rebounding was a disappointment. We've got to do better.

You don't want to err on the side of jeopardizing the advising process that allows the president to do his job.

Horace

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Henry David Thoreau

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.

Jakob Nielsen

Even better than good error messages is a careful design which prevents a problem from occurring in the first place. Either eliminate error-prone conditions or check for them and present users with a confirmation option before they commit to the action.

Jakob Nielsen

Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.

Franco Modigliani

High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.

Erwin Rommel

Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

Ernest Lawrence

I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.

James A. Garfield

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Jacqueline Carey

That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.