Quotes about errors
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 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
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 age degrees
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
errors important progress
Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth
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
errors welcome ancient
Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome. Charles Mackay
errors evil forever
If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured. Charles Hodge
errors trials pay
Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends. Bob Ross
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 safe reacting
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error. Bill Johnson
errors people feelings
Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business. Jane Austen
errors effort risk
If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place. Blaise Pascal
errors people sin
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own. Barbara Kingsolver
errors defense made
there's no defense except all the errors made Charles Bukowski
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 childhood training
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood. Brigham Young
errors trials trial-and-error
All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness. Brennan Manning
errors empathy effort
There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.
errors forever desire
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever. Arthur Schopenhauer
errors giving wish
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
errors perfection turns
Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
errors pursuit satisfied
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more. Edmund Burke