Errors Quotes

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Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to… — Eric S. Raymond
I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides… — Sam Lipsyte
Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use… — John Andreas Widtsoe
A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme… — Seth Klarman
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth — Benjamin Wiker
Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who… — Donald Rumsfeld
Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion… — Louis Aragon
You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in… — George Cukor
If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors. — George Brett
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. — Paul Nitze
It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence,… — Thomas Jefferson
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas… — Thomas Paine
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in… — Thomas Paine
Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot. — Terry Pratchett
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. — Oliver Goldsmith
The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of… — Erich Fromm
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its… — Mark Van Doren
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors. — Livy
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is… — Ahad Ha'am
In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance. — Paul Keres

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