"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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"There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance."

George Gillespie, Scottish Theologian

Error, Ignorance, Man, Understanding

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

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Error, Regret, Truth, Today, Happiness

"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Error, Humanity, Struggle, Want

"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Error, Errors, May

"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

Error, Question

"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."

Moliere, French Playwright

Error, Haste, Road

"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

Error, First, Years

"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

"There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it."

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian Public Servant

Error, Luck, May, Succeed

"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

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

Language

"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."

Spirit

"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."

Doctors

"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

"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."

Road

"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."

Idea

"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."

Music

"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."

Poetry

"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."

Society

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

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