"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."

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"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."

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"The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it."

Levon Helm, American Musician

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"The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors."

Trofim Lysenko, Russian Celebrity

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"Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

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"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."

Ludwig van Beethoven, German Composer

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"Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way."

Cecilia Bartoli, Italian Musician

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"TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file."

Jon Postel, American Scientist

Error, Errors, Order, Want

"I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

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"It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!"

Anna Garlin Spencer, American Minister

Error, Forget, Man, Old

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"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind."

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"It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance."

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"Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."

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"If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society."

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"The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning."

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"It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on."

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