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Error Quotes by Alan Perlis
- There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
- I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of…
- In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
More Error Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your… — Francis Bacon
- In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only… — John J. Pershing
- I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our… — Francois Magendie
- There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell