"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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"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

Error, Errors, Mistakes

"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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"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Physicist

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"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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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

"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill."

David Keene, American Activist

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"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

Alan Perlis, American Scientist

Error,

"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

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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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"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."

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"Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath."

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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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"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."

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

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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."

Family

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

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